The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement was false.

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.

To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face

Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope.

Look. The world is full of liars, and it’s time someone admitted it, shed a light on it, and lightened up about it.

That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.

I'm either shooting nine grams of coke a day or spending two hours at the gym. There's no middle ground.

Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.

When you are working hard, you don't have time for anything other than what you are doing in the scene and what the director wants.

Pity's akin to love; and every thought Of that soft kind is welcome to my soul.