Emphatic and reiterated assertion, especially during childhood, produces in most people a belief so firm as to have a hold even over the unconscious.

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.

To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.

I don’t see why the things we believe absolutely now shouldn’t be just as wrong as what they believed in the past.’‘Neither do I.’‘Then how can you believe anything at all?’‘I don’t know.

To a fireman, wind is a curse. To a sailor, wind is a blessing.

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Do unto the other feller the way he'd like to do unto you an' do it fust.

I believe pain is nature's way of saying, 'You're still alive, and life sucks.'

I think that women find their strength and power in their sexuality, in their sensuality within, [through] getting older and being secure within that.

The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

You have to follow the old rule for a while. In fact, once you master the old rule, you are then the master-and masters get to change things.

We build our character from the bricks of habit we pile up day by day.