The man who accepts opinions because they have been entertained by distinguished people, is a mental snob.

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.

In Technology We Trust. Need to put that on the new hundred-dollar bill.

Modernization, socialization, and progression doesn’t alter nor permit discarding the morals and the laws one should abide themselves too.

Patrick Henry did not say, 'Give me absolutely safety or give me death.' America is supposed to be about freedom.

Beauty is health. Health is beauty.

Take the money in your wallet and invest it in your mind. And in return, your mind will fill up your wallet!

Every generation’s breakthroughs are proven false by the next generation’s Technology

It's nice to feel the fans are behind you. You shouldn't concern yourself with things like that - but it does matter.

When I step into the kitchen in the morning, I go for the scrambled eggs with pine nuts and minced lamb. When I finish at night, it is hard to resist the burger.

Plot does not simply move with time, but spreads out conceptually in metaphorical space.

I have two children and they're young yet but all of the children that I know really inspire me.