Whoever imagines himself a favorite with God holds others in contempt.

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.

But she needs me more than she needs him and I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe better.

My soul doth magnify the Lord, And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.

Nearly every grave moral failure begins with a small sin.

Don't wait until you get hungry to eat. Eating throughout the day is best. And obviously sleep is important.

I had a battle going on in my head: shall I just enjoy my life and then convert on my deathbed? But I felt I couldn't do that - it was now or never - so I took a step of faith and became a Christian.

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

The disinterested imaginative core of mythology is what develops into literature, science, philosophy. Religion is applied mythology.

More and more as time has gone on, I realize that playing is really more about listening than it is about playing.

It is what it is. But, it will be what you make it.

I swear that, not being able to be yours, I will belong to no one.