Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires

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.

A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity.

The man who didn't want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise.

Typically, your corporate e-mail account is not, today, that spam-targeted. It's more the free e-mail accounts that are spam-targeted.

The logic is backwards. Genius is the result of doing what you love, not a prerequisite for it.

Every organism exists as a vehicle for the ennoblement of water into consciousness.

They were firemakers! They were gods! [humans]

If a man has to say trust me, Gogu conveyed, it's a sure sign you cannot. Trust him, that is. Trust is a thing you know without words.

If the Pilgrims had landed in Santa Monica Bay rather than Boston, we'd have six states out here!

We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.

Yes, we have a dress code. You have to dress.