I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.

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.

Never look too far to find a family. Your neighbour is your closest family.

I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality.

NEVER STOP DREAMING. As DREAMS have the special powers to come true one day!

They wanted me to sit, listen, learn, be quiet, when I wanted to run, shout, jump, fly.

You must be a starter and a finisher, the slogan “press on” has solved a lot of problem.

I've done a few old-style romantic leads now.

The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book.

America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people.

I've gone through too much, from beefs to divorce to my mom passing which I always expressed in my music, so there's not album that sticks out as more important than the other to me.

I have always wanted to be liked and respected.