I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds.

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.

Life is a surprise waiting, every moment we are discovering that surprise.

Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity - Posterity has done nothing for us

Our leaders will serve the common good with better laws and better actions only when we serve it first, by casting better votes.

Belief, confidence in yourself.. the world’s your playground. Limitless. My question is... will you be remembered?

National literature begins with fables and ends with novels.

When disposition wins us, the features please.

There's the bullshit you know that you know; the bullshit you don't know and know you don't know; and the bullshit you just think you know but really don't.

I think if you are young and you have children, you still have so much to prove. When you have children later in life, you lose a bit of that urge for working.

We are just as a good as men are - and maybe better and smarter.

Like any good parent you are trying to get the kid in a position where he is stronger and more powerful, and able to achieve things that you couldn't.