Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism.

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.

Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept.

The eyes of the lovers are blind while those of the grieving are wide open.

I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.

Work hard. There is no short cut.

It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.

You can be whatever you want to be. Don't let discouragement take you down.

I think when you have spent the money that we have, it's bound to bring it's own pressure. The players have shown that they can handle that though. (on Chelsea)

Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmie that he can? Let everyone mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made

I think the American people pretty well understand that radical Islam has an agenda that includes us.

I don't need to know how tough I am to know how tough I am.