The road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organized diminution of work.

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.

Failure is a discovery, through it we get to know what we can rise from.

The Italians are very strong defensively. They showed in Euro 2000 how good defensively they are.

So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.

The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.

It’s in the darkest moments when the cracks allow the inner light to come out.

Nothing smelled so good or danced so well as a birch fire.

It’s the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth.

We are sorry about [the E3] media briefings, specifically for those who were expecting to see Nintendo show something about ‘Super Mario’ or ‘Legend of Zelda.’

I want to be in a position where I get to start off fresh. I don't have any preconceived notion of how I should feel.

There's got to be grief.