Wait until the world is free before you write a creed. In this creed there will be but one word -- Liberty.

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.

He loved her.He wanted her.He needed her.And he needed her now.

It's possible to satisfy the needs of the inner life by an intimate communion with nature, or by knowledge of the past.

New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions.

Other people like Neil Young and Dennis Hopper, those are just really close knit family friends.

I don't want anything I don't deserve, but if they offer me more money, I'm not stupid.

We spend countless hours talking about people's feelings and issues that aren't going to change anything.

I found out everybody's different--the same kind of different as me. We're all just regular folks walkin down the road God done set in front of us.

It's a subject that is often hidden and very secretive, but it's something which I feel should have a light shone upon it.

They'll have to bring in Mulder an' Scully, because there ain't no CSI on the planet that'll ever be able to explain this.

If you can’t be good, be colorful.