I know a parson who frightened his congregation terribly by telling them the second coming was very imminent indeed, but they were much consoled when they found he was planting trees in his garden.

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.

The move towards the extension of personhood to children is already underway, and is utterly, completely and totally unstoppable!

I knew then that I wanted to go home, but I had no home to go to--and that is what adventures are all about.

Man persists in waywardness. If one institution fails [he says], try another—anything but God’s plan.

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes." ~ ' They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes." -

There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition

You can't do anything unless you do it yourself. And usually you can't do it yourself very well.

A person is made up of awarenesses. All the awarenesses that have ever been our will ever be exist like barges floating in the ocean.

No matter what is happening now, events will ultimately bend toward love the way a flower bends toward sunlight.

We fought for freedom together. We had no government, no weapons to help us. We defeated such a big empire without any government, without any arms.

I'm very collaborative with everybody on the set.