Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived.

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.

Understand the poem not the poet.

He kisses like he's dying of thirst, and I'm water.

Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.

A man is robbed on the Stock Exchange, just as he is killed in a war, by people whom he never sees.

Every trial and experience you have passed through is necessary for your salvation.

I fell in love with flora of all types, especially ferns. Loved the sparse structure and repetition of shape - almost fractal.

The balance to life is kale cakes and cupcakes

I advocate speaking words of love with all the sincerity that can be mustered, as frequently as possible.

We must not stand upon trifles.

My mother gave me a ukulele at age eight, and I sang the popular tunes of the day.