To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.

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.

I believe God lets us stumble along, slowly finding our way, and giving us chances to pick each other up.

There is no small act of kindness.Every compassionate act makes large the world.

The world is “sick” with loneliness in spite of multitudes of people living in it

They don't want to see rap music. They don't want to see the Beastie Boys. They don't care what we're doing. They want one thing and one thing only: that's to see Madonna come on stage.

The really valuable method of thought to arrive at a logically coherent system is intuition.

After college, I wanted to learned about myself as an American, so I left the United States and went to Japan.

We all have to have our north star that we fix on and go to, but life is so much about the things that bump into you.

You make your own luck. Luck is the residue of design.

The fact of being alive compensated for what life did to one.