Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

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.

No one is poor who has an abundance of love to share with others.

the book is intended to show how it is possible to live in and be enlarged by loss, even as we continue to experience it.

Leadership is about having the courage to go against the advice of the so-called experts and doing what your instinct tells you is right.

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.

In the long run all battles are lost, and so are all wars.

I think that my God-given physical attributes, big hands, and big feet, the way that I'm built, proportion-wise, just made basketball the most inviting sport for me to play.

The camera was another weapon in the wars of domination.

The world is a nettle; disturb it, it stings. Grasp it firmly, it stings not.

They can ta'k our lives but they can never ta'k our freedom!' Now there's a battle cry not designed by a clear thinker