Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.

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.

Stress can destroy much more than just our physical health. Too often, it eats away at our hope, belief, and faith.

To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.

Don't stand back with your arms folded

Poetry is a call to action, and it also is action.

Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right

We shall serve for the joy of serving, prosperity shall flow to us and through us in unending streams of plenty.

Faking your own death is illegal, yet faking your own life is celebrated

My only solution for the problem of habitual accidents is to stay in bed all day. Even then, there is always the chance that you will fall out.

At 27, it's great to get to a place where I'm not an actor for hire anymore.

People are rewarded in public for what the practice for years in private.