Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life.

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

I do not believe that there are any such things as gods and goddesses, for exactly the same reasons as I do not believe there are fairies, goblins or sprites, and these reasons should be obvious to anyone over the age of ten.

Religions survive mainly because they brainwash the young.

If there is anything worth fearing in the world, it is living in such a way that gives one cause for regret in the end.

And I say, the meaning of life is what you make it. There will be as many different meaningful lives as there are people to live them.

I believe that decisions about the timing and manner of death belong to the individual as a human right. I believe it is wrong to withhold medical methods of terminating life painlessly and swiftly when an individual has a rational and clear-minded sustained wish to end his or her life.