Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature.

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.

The earth you subdue becomes your kingdom

Darkness does not age

The human heart operates from two premises: "I Am Responsible" and "Only Love Works.

I stopped living a long time ago, in order to simply exist. Now I am trying to leave existence, in order to step into nihility.

We seem never to know what any thing means or is worth until we have lost it.

I learned you could suffer a terrible tragedy and still be happy again.

They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

If a character dies, you get to do a big, juicy death scene. But the flip side is you're out of the sequel, which is where the real money is.

My daughter loves horses. My other daughter loves soccer.

An inward sincerity will of course influence the outward deportment; but where the one is wanting, there is great reason to suspect the absence of the other.