Belief in a Divine mission is one of the many forms of certainty that have afflicted the human race.

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 wished that I had died, it would have been better for everyone

Natural gas is a better transportation fuel than gasoline, so if that's the case, it's cheaper, it's cleaner and it's a domestic resource.

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

You're mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund

I knew that even if I were second or third rate, it was astronomy that mattered.

It's like these songs are your babies and you don't want anybody to think your babies are ugly! You never really know until you throw it out there if it's gonna take.

History is the lies of the victors.

Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.

You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

The first year of marriage is like wet cement