Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West, results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness.

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 love my animal allies and am grateful for their support. I accept it.

Sublime is something you choke on after a shot of tequila.

Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear.

I love a lot of different styles, but my heart belongs in electronic music.

A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.

Every lie has 2 parts - the lie we tell others and the one we tell ourselves to justify it.

In the prosperous times, you put it in your pocket; in the lean times, you put it in your heart and that's when you discover who you are.

Life is greater when I'm dealing with something than when I'm just dreaming away.

I am a man of parliament, a man of the people. I am not a representative of the executives.

The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state.