Science is the true theology.

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

[A]ll churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

The truth of course was otherwise, but Lecha had never felt she owed anyone the truth, unless it was truth about their own lives, and then they had to pay her to tell them.

Your dreams will come true- If you put your mind to it. Your fantasies not. They only help you imagine that things are better than they really are.

Don't practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.

Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.

Just put your best foot forward and hope for the best. You also have to acknowledge that you're going to make mistakes.

My technique, starting with a quick outline in pencil, is designed to record first impressions, with no time for second thoughts.

I've seen a lot of friends who have a lot of great projects, whether it's a script or a play or whatever, and it is a great project and they have great people involved, and they can't make it.

People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.

Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.

Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters.