There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.

Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders.

Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.

In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.

Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.

I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind.

I try not to let other people's problems problem me.

Mark Spitz didn't ask about Harry. You never asked about the characters that disappeared from a Last Night story. You knew the answer. The plague had a knack for narrative closure.

I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.

Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.

Don't hate the player, Todd, hate the game.

People are always going to have opinions, and people have a right to their opinions.

I'm very versatile and there's nothing I really regret in my life. I'm excited with who I am and I'm just going to keep riding the wave.

If it takes a million years for a fish to become a reptile, has Man, in our few hundred, altered out of recognition?

Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-Box.