Man can be scientifically manipulated.

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.

I am no longer tied to the cliffsThreats don’t hold any groundI have decided to fly highOn the winds of cool complacence

Junior based all of his decisions on his dreams and visions, which created a lot of problems.

Human nature is so weak that the honest men who have no religion make me fret with their perilous virtue, as rope-dancers with their dangerous equilibrium.

You deny that man is really so prejudiced as I suppose him; talk to him then of some foreign country, ask him what religion he is of.

We're all polyester poets and pickers of a kind, with far too many questions for the answers in our minds.

When you're eating something and your palate tells you what's missing, that's when you start combining.

I think it's a mistake to view North Korea as a government. It really is more like a criminal syndicate.

When I listen to songs, I can smell a rat. I like songs that speak to me with some deeper truth.

I think KISS has always been about celebrating self-empowerment. Celebrating the idea that anything is possible with determination and hard work.

Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines.'