Religion + Good Works = Good WorksSolve for Religion.

If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech.

The very concept of sin comes from the Bible. Christianity offers to solve a problem of its own making! Would you be thankful to a person who cut you with a knife in order to sell you a bandage?

I am an atheist because there is no evidence for the existence of God. That should be all that needs to be said about it: no evidence, no belief.

Insanity is believing your hallucinations are real. Religion is believing that other peoples' hallucinations are real.

All you have to do is walk into any children's hospital and you know there is no God. Prayer doesn't make any difference. Those people pray for their beloved children to live and they die.

People are always asking, "What's the purpose of life?" That's easy. Relieve suffering. Create beauty. Make gardens.

If the answers to prayer are merely what God wills all along, then why pray?

I'm proud to be an atheist - it helps me stand for so much more and fall for so much less.

Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits. It is intellectual bankruptcy.

How happy can you be when you think every action and thought is being monitored by a judgmental ghost ?

If you believe someone believe blindly either you get a good relation or a good lesson

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.

I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.

People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity.

No matter what you do this year or in the next hundred, you will be dead forever.

The ground of all religion, that which makes it possible, is the relation in which the human soul stands to God.

I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man.

What is happening to human resources in Punjab. Seven out of 10 youth have the problem of drugs.

The rude beginnings of every art acquire a greater celebrity than the art in perfection; he who first played the fiddle was looked upon as a demigod.