This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second chance were offered me.

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.

To find true fulfilment, you must live your life’s purpose.

Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it.

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.

It is funny what a year can do.

If I knocked and waited at every door, who knows what I might miss?

The future is religion and commerce, aphrodisiac and Benzedrine, a mother of mysterious comfort and a mistress of familiar ravishments ever on the verge of embracing or destroying us.

There are other things that contribute to health besides a balanced diet. There are fresh air and sunlight and lack of nervous tension.

The only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of the consumers.

Getting love is a very small experience. It is the experience of beggar.

There's only one life. There's no repeats. You only get one life, and you gotta take advantage of it.