The hope of science is the perfection of the human race. The hope of theology is the salvation of a few, and the damnation of almost everybody.

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.

I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams...

a great publicity is a high way to remote customers and a universal key to the gate of ignorance

If only tears could speak, they would tell the agony of the eyes.

I believe if you work hard and you dream big enough, you can accomplish anything in this world.

Any nerd who grew up around the time that I did, BBC programming was a treasure chest for us.

The lesson I was learning involved the idea that I could feel compassion for people without acting on it.

A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.

I always say I make pictures rather than take pictures.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.