Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

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.

A good plan is like a road map: It shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.

The mine is always bigger than the gem.

I'm totally the 'decorate early, start listening to Christmas songs super early' guy. I've just always been that way.

I'm not making any secret of the fact I still believe in independence. We'll continue to argue the case.

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

The miracle of enlightenment is that you take the self and let it dissolve in the white light of eternity.

I don't think Obama's a socialist or evil, I just think he's wrong and I disagree with him, he's a leftist, that's what they are in France and in Great Britain and in Canada.

You can't condemn me for wanting you, unless you condemn every other man who has." -Clayton Westmoreland

There was something awful about terror trapped behind silence. About latent emotions that couldn't be acted out." "Cole's thoughts on page 248 of Linger.

I really like defensive players. I've never played defense so I often wonder how they think.