To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

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.

Ours is a love people write stories about...

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't.

People think about this idea that there's 122 million kids that are alive that would not be if that fatality rate had stayed at the 1990 level, that's 122 million families.

The biggest terrorist is George W. Bush.

Establish who you are, and don't let anybody dress you up or change the way you are, and stay true to yourself.

When you're traveling, ask the traveler for advice / not someone whose lameness keeps him in one place.

If a senator or congressman notices 25 phone calls, on any issue, on any given day, it is noted.

it is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.

Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught.