Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

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've never stunned anyone except in our D.A. lessons, " said Luna, sounding mildly interested. "That was noisier than I thought it would be.

Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.

If things far away don’t concern you, you’ll soon mourn things close at hand.

Flirtation attention without intention.

I really said, 'Okay, this is just the right job for me. This is really what I need to be doing: telling stories through music in lots of different styles of music.'

You can't have a motion without a debate.

Rap music came along and saved my life. I started to tell the stories of the streets and that was my way out.

The world that is in me is the only world I have by which to grasp the world outside and as I write fiction, it is the chart by which I must steer.

When something isn't constantly drummed-up by the media, [people] just don't know about it.

My nickname is Dickie Jukebox.