Only a few years ago there was no person too ignorant to successfully answer Charles Darwin; and the more ignorant he was the more cheerfully he undertook the task.

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.

To truly be satisfied in life, you must invest your time into doing what you were born to do instead of wasting your time trying to impress a boss or a company doing a job that you were not born for.

morality... comes at a price.

I don't have a stack of scripts...

Think! I've got enough to do, and little enough to get for it, without thinking.

A garden should be natural-seeming, with wild sections, including a large area of bluebells.

It's up to us as photographers to give voice to the natural world.

Never measure your generosity by what you give, but rather by what you have left.

It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon.

I think it was Fran Lebowitz who said that there are no writing prodigies. You have to have something to write about.

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.