Every sane and sensible and quiet thing we do is absolutely ignored by the press.

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.

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Therm-bombs! Drop ’em right on us! I been roasted before—it’s nothing!

Because the human experience involves loss, we need to feel it, express it, and then release it. Only then do we achieve healing.

I am on a drug. It's called Charlie Sheen.

It’s weird to think the place where we’re standing will only be a point in the sky.

People have an awful lot of problems that society has put on them and a lot to work through because of it.

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

Now the thing is not to get into unnecessary quarrels by talking too much and not to indicate any weakness by talking too much; let our actions speak for themselves.

I'm honest enough to say I don't know everything. You know, I don't. I don't understand all of God. I don't understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.

What you must accept as a parent is that you cannot always be there for your child without sometimes ruining everything.