The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so sure of themselves and wiser people so full of doubts.

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.

Honesty's praised then left to freeze.

No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy.

What work you do! It's strange work for a Christian girl to hang old women!

I'm a lapsed Catholic in the best sense of the word.

For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made

Artists... disappeared long ago as social forces. So did the church.

I would love the opportunity to work in Chicago. It would be like a dream come true, if I could work there on something like the way ER was filmed.

Elwyn Brooks White was a very Maine personality which is, "I hate everyone and everyone stay away from me."

I looked at my daughter's face and thought, it's lovely to be beautiful but better to be healthy.

And I quoted from Nietzsche: That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.