The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

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.

As long as your ideas of what's possible are limited by what's actual, no other idea has a chance.

We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.

Don't try to compete, Create!Don't try to compare, Dominate!Don't try to complain, Change!And don't just try, Commit!This is the moment that can change your life forever!

Once you reach the summit of your own heart you will see beauty is everywhere.

Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz - My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.

We have a black President in the United States. I think the world has matured. It's no longer about colour, but the person in the skin.

Without a belief in personal immortality, religion surely is like an arch resting on one pillar, like a bridge ending in an abyss.

Nothing bad can happen to a writer. Everything is material.

I wouldn't want to date a pushover who would let me make all the plans and have all the control.

Charity itself fulfills the law. And who can sever love from charity?