The good part of Christmas is not always Christian -- it is generally Pagan; that is to say, human, natural.

Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no miracles, and no persecutions.

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

Do you not know that every religion in the world has declared every other religion a fraud? Yes, we all know it. That is the time all religions tell the truth - each of the other.

Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.

The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the heart of man is capable.

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth.

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

All of us - we should do everything we can to make sure this country lives up to our children's expectations.

Selflessness is the highest goal of good leaders.

I need to backtrack. I need to reboot.Do not save changes

The reason God can't use you more than He wants to may well be that you are not prepared.

Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.

It was nice - in the dark and the quiet... and her eyes looking back, like there was something in me worth seeing.

Democracy disciplined and enlightened is the finest thing in the world. A democracy prejudiced, ignorant, superstitious, will land itself in chaos and may be self-destroyed.

I have a daughter, she's twenty years old.

What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind.

The sound of the bat is the music of spring training.