Psychology often becomes the disease of which it should be the cure.

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.

The freer a society is, the more it leaves the family alone.

I took the batteries out my mysticism / 
And put them in my thinking cap

A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.

I was bullied as a kid, and I got a job on television. And I had a camera. And so I wanted to go after those business bullies. And I just have been following that instinct.

Sometimes playing TV can be really nerve-wracking, and I think I tend to handle that by trying to look at my band-mates as frequently as possible and ignore everything else.

When you're young as a comic, you don't have a lot of leverage.

Counter Girl (in candy shop): You two are cute. Seriously. How long have you been going out? Sam: Six years.

I like hoodies. They just make me feel safe.

And the commercials would have sickened a goat raised on barbed wire and broken beer bottles.

There were so many levels to the unknown, from safe to dangerous to outright nebulous, scariest of all.