Neither acquiescence in skepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce.

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.

With grace, we can obey God’s commands.

In any circumstance, call on God.

When cheated, wife or husband feels the same.

There is no corporation in the world that would, in a competitive environment, try and concentrate all decisions at the corporate level.

In a new interview, Herman Cain said that if Rick Perry were an ice cream flavor, he'd be 'Rocky Road.' I don't know, Perry's not really any flavor of ice cream. He's just the brain freeze part.

Never think you can separate who you are from what you're doing.

It's hard being part of a married couple in a band.

The older theory was, marry an older man because they're more mature. But the new theory is men don't mature. Marry a younger one.

The most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to make sure that as soon as you set them you immediately begin to create momentum.

The first law of success is concentration - to bed all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor the left.