Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

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.

She was back in western Washington state, where rain was so prevalent that a day of sunshine was the lead story on the local news.

My idea of a romantic night is to watch action films.

It is a revolution that came to power with its own army and on the ruins of the army of oppression.

Don't you get it? It's the end of the world! That's exactly when you fall in love. When else?

Fish and fowl, warm sun and shady trees, the field mice in the wheat, under the cool light of the moon.

We must attend to what our inner guidance is nudging us toward.

I went out on my own, years ago, to try to create some additional choices in a parallel universe.

I can never be an atheist, because God is our celestial hope for our existential worries, our cosmic chance against absurdity!" MMI

Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential.

Your life is a result of the choices you have made. If you don't like your life, start making better choices.