Love is a slippery eel that bites like hell

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 man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.

The world isn't scandalized by our freedom but by our fakeness.

You will never accept gratitude as a solution to your problems, until you have reached the last stage of grief--acceptance.

But there is no value to suffering!

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism.

Brain tumor survivors: don't become hopelessly discouraged if you are experiencing deficits. You in a war and you are bound to have a few battle wounds.

Love is at first a set of delusions, which, as time goes by, are discarded like training wheels, and you love truly.

You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.