In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments there are consequences.

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.

He felt that such a life in which one could display such sarcasm and wit was after all to a certain degree worth living.

I never took a computer science course in college, because then it was a thing you just learned on your own.

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

We've stayed really normal and down to Earth I think, and haven't let the success thing go to our head.

No nation on this globe should be more internationally minded than America because it was built by all nations.

No Way Back is my kind of novel - a tough, taut thriller - Mofina knows the world he writes about.

Increasing recycling in Delaware is an idea whose time has come and, if put off, may not come again.

Coming close to what you thought you wanted can help you attain what you never dreamed you could.

I believe, whatever God does, he does it for the good. I always try to look at life like that.

We till shadowed days are done, We must weep and sing Duty's conscious wrong, The Devil in the clock