From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.

Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders.

Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.

In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.

Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.

You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

If you only focus on what is, you may never attain what could be. Focus on the possibilities.

A thought comes when it will, not when I will.

Pandering candidates often promise that they can make the pain go away.

Ships that pass in the night.

I'd like to classify my life as a romantic comedy. Unfortunately I feel it's probably more like a TV reality show.

For a man needs only to be turned around once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost...Not 'til we are lost do we begin to find ourselves.

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Sin is not taken out of man, as Eve was out of Adam, by putting him to sleep.