There is in all artists a little of the vagabond.

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.

To love life is to love all of it.

A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.

Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.

There are people who lie simply for the sake of lying.

You can't hold firewalls and intrusion detection systems accountable. You can only hold people accountable.

Of course I'm going to marry, but I don't know when.

One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.

I used comedy as a way to combat my dyslexia. I was barely getting by scholastically, so I used a lot of humor.

I read some article where Reese Witherspoon said, "If you're not yelling at your kids, you're not spending enough time with them." It made me feel so much better.

The sacred lives beyond labels and judgment, in the wood-of-no-names.