Mathematics possesses not only truth but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere like that of a sculpture.

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.

Go through the proper motions each day and you'll soon begin to feel the corresponding emotions!

Your thoughts can torture you-but not the dead. They've moved on.

One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

As we lose ourselves in the service of others, we discover our own lives and our own happiness.

I lived in Judea eighteen hundred years ago, but I never knew that there was such a one as Christ among my contemporaries.

Having once been so high, humanity fell so low. What had once been dedicated to the soul was now dedicated to the sale.

Being a journalist, Hacker had no particular talent for reporting facts.

I'm particularly committed to the political people who needed defense. I understand that they're fighting a bigger war than just, "Let me go get some money for cocaine tonight."

Halliburton is not a 'company' doing business in Iraq. It is a war profiteer, bilking millions from the pockets of average Americans. In past wars they would have been arrested – or worse.