Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.
You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.
Religion is the opium of the masses.
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat you. Believe that you now receive power from Him.
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and tranquillity will return again.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.
The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite.
