In a democracy it is necessary that people should learn to endure having their sentiments outraged.

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.

Love is now, is always. All that is missing is the coup de grâce- which is called passion.

Every time you walk lonely, you get a very special gift: The silence!

Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be h

There's no short-cut to becoming strong. Even if you try to look strong on the outside, that thin layer will soon fall off.

You can go one block to the next in San Francisco and get a completely different opinion of what the issue is.

It has long been my conviction that a masked man with a gun is a target. I see no reason to change that view.

In this breaking-through, I receive that God and I are one. Then I am what I was, and then I neither diminish nor increase, for I am then an immovable cause that moves all things.

I know nothing about Christianity, nothing about football, and I'm not a Republican.

We should have been wiser; we should have died yesterday.

If you're willing to take the humiliation of sticking your head above the crowd, maybe it's, you know, the pleasure will be worth the pain.