I am honorary President of the American Humanist Society, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that utterly functionless capacity. We Humanists behave as well as we can, without any rewards or punishments in an Afterlife.

Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

From an eternal perspective, the only death that is truly premature is the death of one who is not prepared to meet God.

If you’re not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you’re going to be punished for them, then what’s your motivation to continue?

Well, we can’t say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.

Do I have chocolate chip cookies? Yes, I do. Do I have mint chocolate chip milkshakes? Yes, I do. I love them. They are fantastic. But when I have them, they’re worth it. I earned them. I did something. I worked out super hard. I stayed clean on food.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

Endorsements are a reward for good performance on the field, and the commitments made after signing them need to be done.

If you are not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.

We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I’m going to be alive, I want to be challenged – to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn’t an easy way, but it’s a rewarding way.

The ‚kingdom of Heaven‘ is a condition of the heart – not something that comes ‚upon the earth‘ or ‚after death.‘

There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he’ll be there.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

I don’t think I’ve ever been an agnostic. I’ve always thought there’s a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there’s a world to come.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

I’m very careful about saying who would and wouldn’t go to heaven. I don’t know.

I believe God’s keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can’t give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it’s peace or joy or satisfaction.

I’m going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.

If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.

There is no hope of anyone going to Heaven unless they believe this truth I am presenting. You cannot go to Heaven unless you believe with all your heart that Jesus took your place in Hell.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn’t make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

I don’t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

He hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn’t an afterlife.

Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man condemned to public works still serves the country, and is a living lesson.

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

I don’t believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

There were some great clinicians in the 20th century – great men. Freud was a genius; Jung was a genius, Carl Rogers was a genius – there’s a half-dozen psychologists of the 1950s and humanists of the 1960s.

My wife is already in Heaven.