Argument cannot be answered with insults. Kindness is strength; anger blows out the lamp of the mind.

At the bottom of religious persecution is the doctrine of self-defence; that is to say, the defence of the soul. If the founder of Christianity had plainly said: 'It is not necessary to believe in order to be saved; it is only necessary to do, and he who really loves his fellow-men, who is kind, honest, just and charitable, is to be forever blest' - if he had only said that, there would probably have been but little persecution.

I would rather be a beggar and spend my money like a king, than be a king and spend money like a beggar.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

There is no evidence that God ever interfered in the affairs of man. The hand of earth is stretched uselessly towards heaven. From the clouds there comes no help.

And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?

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.