The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

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.

When you turn the construction of your life over to God, He'll build something beautiful.

To keep from going stale you must forget your professional outlook and rediscover the virginal eye of the amateur.

"No" is just a moment in time.

Duets are not about individual skill but about the relationship between the two players.

Retire for what? What would I do? I made my name as a person that is helping. I'm like Moses in the music business.

Economic development is what's going to make mountaintop removal palatable.

Try to keep ourselves open, no matter how closed the world tries to make us sometimes.

Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.

You can't rush the miles. No matter how fast I run, the five miles isn't going to be done in the first five minutes.

Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.