Shakespeare has done far more for the world than the Bible.

No man with a sense of humor ever founded a religion.

Prayer is of no avail. The lightning falls on the just and the unjust in accordance with natural laws.

There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers.

God cannot send to eternal pain a man who has done something toward improving the condition of his fellow-man. If he can, I had rather go to hell than to heaven and keep company with such a god.

If there is a God who will damn his children forever, I would rather go to hell than to go to heaven and keep the society of such an infamous tyrant.

I have made up my mind that if there is a God, he will be merciful to the merciful. Upon that rock I stand. That he will not torture the forgiving. Upon that rock I stand. That every man should be true to himself, and that there is no world, no star in which honesty is a crime. Upon that rock I stand.