When a fact can be demonstrated, force is unnecessary; when it cannot be demonstrated, force is infamous.

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.

In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours.In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.

It's and old, old story: I had a friend and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared that, too.

If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.

I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're going to do. I'm just going to do it. Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.

I am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain.

The best way to see a country is from the footplate of a locomotive.

I'm an Air Force officer first, a pilot second and then Nicole. The female part is last. . . . My job is to be the best right wingman that I can be.

I've decided that my motto in life is "Get off my lawn." It's the right answer to everything.

Take the best out of everything and adapt it to your needs.

Be as bold as the first man or [woman] to eat an oyster.