The man who invented the telescope found out more about heaven than the closed eyes of prayer ever discovered.

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.

No matter what the good boys tell you, criminality is not a level playing field.

If you project yourself to be extra-ordinary then you will find ordinaries joining hands to ensure that you remain an extra..

Your mind is such a crucial asset to a victorious life. The mind is the eye of a man. What it sees and accepts shapes a man's life and determines his destiny.

Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

As estimated, you died. Things marched, sufficient, to that end. Just so much Zyklon and leather, patented terror, so many routine cries.

If there's a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on and it gets done.

The United States can hide behind a facade simply because it is sucking the blood of other people...The Third World people: Africa, Asia and Latin America.

The saving power of the cross does not depend on faith being addded to it; its saving power is such that faith flows from it

You bet your Grannie's Panties I will.

I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood.