With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.