The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

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 challenge you, me. Die or live and be great.

There is not a single truth of science upon which we ought to bet more than about a million of millions to one.

To transform the world women need to strive for authenticity.

More often than not, if you've got a good director and a good script you can't really go wrong.

My son, the Holy Church is on the right, but Jesus Christ was always on the left.

When I was 17 - 16, my father and I cut wood all day long and I was swinging that crosscut saw and hauling wood.

Sometimes we don't know how afraid we are until we've reached a strange door and we don't know what will be on the other side.

I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.

Two things make a story. The net and the air that falls through the net.

Sometimes the embers are better than the campfire.