One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the more you will wish to be talked about.

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 have a habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am now leading a posthumous existence.

Shoo. Away with you. It's my fault for expecting the extraordinary from the ordinary.

He didn't blame James for falling in love with her, she was a radiant, deserving woman. He knew, however, that love only did one thing. It got in the way.

If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it?

While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.

I don't think actors get good training today. I put my training to use in everything I do.

You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.

Why are you still here?" she asked. "Shouldn't you be in a cave somewhere inspiring people?

Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.

My dad bought me a guitar and people would ask me to play.