Among the Tibetans, one wife has many husbands, because men are too poor to support a whole wife.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudices of more than half the nation.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly god, and they would be kindly in any case.

I pushed him against his Jeep, looked him dead in the eye and kissed him. He asked if he could come up, and I just walked up the steps and said, not yet. That was the moment I knew I loved him.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

If you want something done right, do it yourself.

We give all we have, lives, property, safety, skill...we fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand up.

Spineless politics do not change the mind of a tyrant.

I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that seems to have no meaning.

From each as they choose, to each as they are chosen.

For me photography was the means to the end, but they made it the most important thing. (On the discovery of X-ray photography.)

Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely.

I really didn't say everything I said. [...] Then again, I might have said 'em, but you never know.