There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers.

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.

There is a hole in the heart called "absence". You live in it my dear.

Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.

It is the mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to erase Israel from the map of the region.

If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the growing robot menace.

If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

All you can do is hang in there and hope you don't get motion sickness and puke all over the newspapers.

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

Nothing aids which may not also injure us. Fire serves us well, but he who plots to burn His neighbor's roof arms his hands with fire.

Value your words. Each one may be the last.

But in a story I can steal her soul.