First, I hate all theological controversy: it is wearing to the temper, and is I believe (at all events when viva voce) worse than useless.

The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo.

I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.

I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.

You know what the issue is with this world? Everyone wants some magical solution to their problem and everyone refuses to believe in magic.

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

I'm doubtful about the temper of your flamingo. Shall I try the experiment?

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

Why is it that people with the most narrow of minds seem to have the widest of mouths?

If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much!

You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret... All the best people are!

You must refuse to entertain or shelter in your mind, any thought or belief that goes against your happiness and success in life.

The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference as kindness.

The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.

Any solution for the Iraqi problem cannot be reached without Arabs and Arab participation.

The only fear is fear itself, so get rid of it.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book.

There's nothing that can teach you more than experience.

I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.

Secrets bind and separate in strict accordance with who's in them .

I get energy from meditation practice and from eating healthy fresh food, only one cup of espresso in the morning, and not drinking too much.