It seems to me that if there is some infinite being who wants us to think alike he would have made us alike.

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.

If life is for love, then start loving at this very moment.

The truth is hidden in books.

The Wanderlust has got me... by the belly-aching fire

I guess professionally I've left my gender open to artistic interpretation.

Blessing is the projection of good into the life of another.

My entire life has been devoted to breaking down barriers, to finding common ground.

Some things are really necessaries of life in some circles, which in others are luxuries merely and in others still are entirely unknown.

Everybody think they're famous when they get 100,000 followers on Instagram and 5,000 on Twitter.

Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds

Then I did Mystic Pizza, just to do something I wasn't fat in.