The record of a generous life runs like a vine around the memory of our dead, and every sweet unselfish act is now a perfumed flower.

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.

If you live for money, no amount will ever satisfy you.

Becoming like Christ means aiming to serve, not be served.

When we get a chance to take part in elections, I am ready to fight for leading positions, including in the presidential vote.

Jeremy, are we going to play your games?

It took me 10 years to write a story that pleased me - that I could look at after it was published and not cringe.

The export market is based, on high-paying jobs. I've seen statistics that show that people make over 88 a year generally benefit from this because these are export jobs.

There is a particular danger with a war that God commands. What if God should lose?

How can you respect the world when you see it's being run by a bunch of kids turned old?

The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.

I do practice martial arts, more as a recreational thing, but a lot of my friends have been heavyweight champions the in mixed martial arts world.