Christianity did not come with tidings of great joy, but with a message of eternal grief. It came with the threat of everlasting torture on its lips. It meant war on earth and perdition hereafter.

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.

It's easy for common people to say what they think about the government. No one listens to them.

...here on Coney Island, we learn to take each other as we are.

Live your life today without any fear of unknown.Be strong and courageous to seek new path.

I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.

My evolution into becoming a photojournalist started with falling in love with literature when I was a teenager, falling in love with novels and imagining a life of being a storyteller.

There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances.

My father has said a hundred times, and I have paid attention, that it's stupid to let money be the reason you don't do something.

Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.

I love to feel that I'm not above anyone.

There's been a shift: Country music is popular music now. Every other genre wants to come over to our land.