The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.

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.

When you have fear then the world is a big place. When you have courage then the world shrinks.

I don't know how to live happy, but i can teach how to live happy.

Think for youself but not because I said so!

I think they should make Twilight closets and all the cast members can walk out of them.

The gods have sent medicines for the venom of serpents, but there is no medicine for a bad woman. She is more noxious than the viper, or than fire itself.

I think that generally New Zealand is respected for the positions it takes because it thinks them through.

If Voting Changed Anything They'd Abolish It

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

If the heavens throw you dates, you got to keep your mouth open.

I feel like writing about a time when I was probably, and think all of us are, the happiest before the obligations start in.