To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are dead.

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 didn't know how to hold my lips.

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind it forces you to stretch your own.

Don’t expect success to fall from the sky if it didn't evaporate from the sweat of your hands.

Billions of years before twelve step groups, God committed shotgun suicide. Today wall scrapings share His gratitude stories.

It's over and can't be helped and that's one consolation as they always say in Turkey when they cut the wrong man's head off.

Every game, you will have a decided schematic advantage.

A bachelor is a guy who leans toward women - but not far enough to lose his balance.

Long before I ever started acting, believe it or not, I always knew I wanted to be a director.

For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.

Do not store in your brain useless information. Learn to unmind the mind. Unlearn whatever has been of no use to you. Then only can you fill your mind with divine thoughts.