Too much doubt is better than too much credulity.

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.

Developing the man within creates invisible changes in a man’s character

sometimes all we need to be able to continue aloneare the deadrattling the wallsthat close us in.

Humility of the soul

There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

The beckoning counts, and not the clicking of the latch behind you.

My parents always pushed creativity on us, but they made it seem like the fun thing to do.

In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge.

The ambitious man has never found his true vocation.

Management [ Providence ], knowledge, and intention are not the same when ascribed to us and when ascribed to God.

Unfortunately, my love life is nil. I'm working too much - but I would like to settle down at some point.