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.

I want to fill every part of you, breathe the air from your lungs and leave my handprints on your soul. I want to give you more pleasure than you can bear.

Two ways to treat a girl: Make her feel as a princess Or Make her feel as a slave.

Dream a better dream, an unselfish dream, a dream to make the world a better place, then work to make that dream a reality

A talent for drama is not a talent for writing but is an ability to articulate human relationships.

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.

I consider myself an essayist and a fiction writer. In the essays, I certainly have been influenced by some of the leading science essayists. Like Loren Eiseley, Stephen Jay Gould, Lewis Thomas.

Never use the words 'suddenly' or 'all hell broke loose.'

If you go, go in Peace it makes the flowers sweeter along the path.

She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.