It is pure illusion to think that an opinion which passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.

It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.

In matters of religion, it is very easy to deceive a man and very hard to undeceive him.

The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.

If an historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weaknesses, and disorders of mankind, his readers would take his work for satire rather than for history.

There was no other God, religion, or lawful magistracy, than conscience, which teaches all men the precepts of Justice, to do no injury, to live honestly, and give everyone his due.

No nations are more warlike than those which profess Christianity.

It is only common prejudice that induces us to believe that atheism is a fearful state.

Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.

I am a good Protestant, and in the full sense of the term, for from the bottom of my soul, I protest against everything that is said, and everything that is done.

I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist.

The best way to start each day is with and in gratitude for the gift of life. You receive it by grace not by deeds.

Make sure you date someone who always makes you want to dance, with or without music.

Metaphysics is not the result of understanding the limitations of physics.It’s rather the result of the limitation in understanding physics.

Vampires were myths, childhood stories– as were werewolves, mermaids and dragons. I believed none of it.

I was labeled at a young age - Miss Unemotional, Miss Cool, and that would carry over to my press conferences.

Men should be buff! Women should be vavoom!

Nonviolence being the mightiest force in the world and also the most elusive in its working, demands the greatest exercise of faith.

Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.

Whether they yield or refuse, it delights women to have been asked.

An artist is an artist because he is not happy with the world, so he creates his own existence.