If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease.

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.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness or else forgiving another.

Continuously, in commemoration of the FriendWe drank wine, even before the creation of the vine.

I look up in the sky, what do I see? Well blue.

Canada is not so much a country as a clothesline nearly 4 000 miles long. St John's in Newfoundland is closer to Milan Italy than to Vancouver.

Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal.

That was something that I learned from Alan Ball from “Six Feet Under." He didn”t really like to have too many pop culture references because they don”t really hold up after a few years.

We must look at the institution of slavery as publicists, and not as casuists. It is a question of law, and not a case of conscience.

Every second you spend wishing God would take away a struggle is a forfeited opportunity to overcome.

You'd rather have nothing than settle for less.

Getting along with others is the essence of getting ahead, success being linked with cooperation.