No matter how eloquently a dog may bark he cannot tell you that his parents were poor but honest.

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.

People who live according to the world’s standard are confused, and therefore get into all kinds of trouble that leads to destruction.

Your mind is beautiful. No matter what problems people say you have, every mind is capable of writing something inspiring and beautiful.

less apathy, more empathy.

Calling people 'sweetheart' makes most people enraged.

All the sorrow, all the bitterness, all the sadness, I forget them and ignore them in the joy of working.

I know politicians - I know politicians, believe it or not, better than you [Ted Cruz] do. And it's not good.

...with what we spent in Iraq we could build nuclear power plants and space solar power satellites and tell the Arabs to drink their oil.

It's harder to gain relevance or traction. But I'm of the opinion that if something's really good - not pretty good, but really, really good - people will hear about it.

It is permissible to be the god of your own metaphors.

Strategies for research and policy development must simultaneously address people's needs, the capacity of programs to provide good quality of care, and the range of technological options available.