Whoever increases the sum of human joy, is a worshiper. He who adds to the sum of human misery, is a blasphemer.

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.

Rights are not self-evident. They're not unalienable. They are subject to modification just like anything else.

I don't think Alfonso was a big expert on Potter either. He was feeling his way through it more than I was.

I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings. They found me. I have never even owned a work of art. They owned me.

I'm a big believer in always challenging yourself and learning new skills.

The goal of the operation is to send Gaza back to the Middle Ages, only then will Israel be calm for the next 40 years.

I respond to women who have their stuff together, who are in charge, who don't need men to do things for them. I want a woman to have her own thing.

I live to laugh, and I laugh to live.

Americans live with the certain knowledge that the source of their greatness has not yet been released.

No one who accepts the sovereignty of truth can be a foot soldier in a party or movement. He will always find himself out of step.

To work with somebody you love makes filming faster, more fun.