The experience of overcoming fear is extraordinarily delightful.

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.

If proof were the standard of truth, fallacies would constitute the ultimate reality.

When would I stop being second choice? Would I ever be number one to the person I cared most about in the world?

Success on the Web require high-level corporate understanding of the Internet's capabilities and support of early test-and-invest projects.

Planning trip around the globe, that is in my room.

I'm quite comfortable now with being misunderstood. I don't really feel the need either to pander to it or to refute it. Just go on, and do what I've got to do.

Modesty is my best quality.

The snow had begun in the gloaming, and busily all the night had been heaping field and highway with a silence deep and white.

Sleep is uncanny, I have always found it so, a nightly dress-rehearsal for being dead.

Yours is... il sent comme lavande." Is that French for 'You stink'?" It means 'lavender'." Huh." She sniffed at her wrist. "I thought I smelled more like a grape Popsicle.

Spread abroad the name of Jesus in humility and with a meek heart; show him your feebleness, and he will become your strength.