We are not accountable for the sins of "Adam".

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.

The smallest things get to her. It's as if she assumes everything will go right, and when it doesn't -- which, of course, is pretty often -- she is surprised and affronted.

The greatest gift you and your partner can give your children is the example of an intimate, healthy, and loving relationship.

Trust is consistently seen as a make or break component of innovation - particularly because the freedom to fail is an important part of innovation.

Habits begin as offhanded remarks, ideas and images. And then, layer upon layer, through practice, they grow from cobwebs into cables that shackle or strengthen our lives.

When you struggle with a problem, that's when you understand it.

My whole thing has always been as long as everybody else is going through it, I can go through it as well.

Power makes you a monarch, and all the fancy robes in the world won't do the job without it.

I just can't conceive of how a person could hate another because of skin color. I love every race on the planet earth.

There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.

Why resist change when it's the main source of your growth?