The meanest hut with love in it is a palace fit for the gods, and a palace without love is a den only fit for wild beasts.

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.

We have come to love darkness of religion rather than striving to understand how the world is supposed to function.

It's a fact of life that positive reasons don't always get people to vote. You need some negative reasons.

My land is bare of chattering folk; / the clouds are low along the ridges, / and sweet's the air with curly smoke / from all my burning bridges.

All talk of method and style seemed suddenly trivial; I became interested in meaning. I wanted to say something musically about life and living.

Humility is the altar upon which God wishes that we should offer Him His sacrifices.

A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of calumnity, pursued by a faction, may descend even to posterity. This principal has taken full effect on this state favorite.

In America, what makes us so successful is the innovation, the competition, the focus on merit.

In Jesus, God wills to be true God not only in the height but also in the depth - in the depth of human creatureliness, sinfulness and mortality.

Feel the wounded heart that's underneath the addiction, self-loathing, or anger.

People sometimes get in the habit of being loyal to a mistake.