The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

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.

We give up too soon. The sure way to succeed is to endure to the very end.

Clay lies still, but blood's a rover; Breath's aware that will not keep. Up, lad: when the journey's over then there'll be time enough to sleep.

It is a dead heart. It is inside of me. It is a stranger yet once it was agreeable, opening and closing like a clam.

Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.

TV and comics and movies are what you think about when you think about geek, but people can be a geek about anything.

I always knew that I would be some type of public figure, but I never knew that it would be rapping.

Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.

Quantum mechanics is confusing and consciousness is confusing, so maybe they're the same.

Had I lived in Palestine, in the days of Jesus of Nazareth, I would have washed his feet, not with my tears, but with my heart's blood!

Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not.