Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.

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.

Oh, how wonderfully romantic of you. Romantics are really only in love with themselves.

How many senators have taken their conception of what America can do from what they’ve seen on the American movie screen?

The trouble with normal is it always gets worse, fashionable fascism dominates the scene.

I've never had a writer, and I'm proud of that. Everything I've per­formed has been from my own head.

I have to decide whether I'm just laying down a groove, kind of a bed and canvas for the lyrics and music to live on, or trying to illustrate something in the lyrics.

Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones.

I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.

There is nothing terribly wrong with my face, even if some of its parts aren't very inspiring.

Why do women care about how big their feet are? I never saw a guy at the beach going, 'Wow, look at that woman, she is really... oh, darn! The feet are too big.'

Donald Trump has told me that he is proud of the fact that he finally got Barack Obama to produce his birth certificate.