We rise by lifting others.

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.

Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring what others think.

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.

I just don’t understand why anyone would want to get their caffeine in a less-efficient form.

It is a secret in the Oxford sense. You may tell it to only one person at a time.

The music I'm making is like an explosion of love. It moves away from super dark, its more romanticized and floral, but still quite black.

My son loves the Hotel du Cap, in the south of France.

One of my favorite things about supernatural fiction is its vast array of creatures.

Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.

The heart that feels music will feel people

In the stutter-flashes of light, the clouds look like huge transparent brains filled with bad thoughts.