There can be goodness without much intelligence - but it seems to me that perfect intelligence and perfect goodness must go together.

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 don't agree that life favors the prepared mind because life made me lose my mind.

There is nothing so nice as supposing. It's almost like being a fairy. If you suppose anything hard enough it seems as if it were real.

Have you got something against faith?”“Have you got something against reason?

A seed cannot grow in stone. It requires fertile soil & water. Compassion is the soil where life grows.

The dogs were really keening now, like Irish widows.

Michael Jordon may have been the best basketball player in history, but he couldn't have won six NBA titles without a team.

What good is a body if I can't have you?

Should one name one central concept, a first principle, of cybernetics, it would be circularity.

I enjoy creating. And if you can do it in a cool way, do it. You can't worry about disappointing people or what their expectations might be.

I remember being so young I thought all artists were famous.