The power of thought, the vast regions it can master.

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.

Something must be left to chance nothing is sure in a sea fight beyond all others.

Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.

Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.

Over the last few years, Greece has been in the world spotlight for all the wrong reasons - because of its economic crisis, and then because of the refugees from Syria.

Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman.

I'm a minimalist. I don't really need much to enjoy a good holiday - just my family and the bare essentials.

In hindsight, I wish I had done more.

Prostitution gives her an opportunity to meet people. It provides fresh air and wholesome exercise, and it keeps her out of trouble.

Someone told me it was a round thing that gobbles up money. I thought that was Tip O'Neill.

Brother, the Great Spirit has made us all. . . . .