The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.

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 will thank God for the day and the moment I have.

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.

The problem for the Left, however, is that the moment it stops painting the Right as vile, it has to argue the issues.

It's a waste of energy to think about what somebody else is doing and how they doing it. I'ma just do what I do.

Creationists have long held that evolutionary theory is atheistic; defenders of the theory do the theory no favor when they agree.

A country doesn't need a businessman to run it: it needs a heartful, worldly, compassionate leader.

I hate to shop. I consider it one of life's necessary evils, like brussels sprouts and high-heeled shoes.

Washington has always had a pretty healthy amount of self-loathing.

I've always been very interested in the visual aspect of what I do.