Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This is, of course, a mistake.

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.

Before she cut her birthday cake, she cast a wish, then blew the candles out from his eyes.

People live, and then they die, and as long as they do both things propertly, there's nothing much to regret.

The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.

In all earnestness I asked myself what kind of world I had stumbled into.

If we look at the world with a love of life, the world will reveal its beauty to us.

When you become fully responisble for your life, you can become fully human; once you become human, you may discover what it mens to be a warrior.

Persecutors are almost always former Victims.

A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But its some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood.

God plants dreams in people's hearts. But many people do not continue all the way to the end in order to follow Him to the fulfillment of that dream.

Well, all these stars have their houses swept quite regularly by people who work in the surveillance security business. They come in and they look for bugs and things.