To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts 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.

Acts of Kindness:A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on someone else's life.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

And just like that, the universe goes wrong. Just like that, all the enormity seems to shrink into a ball and float away from my reach. I feel it, and she doesn't. Or I feel it, and she won't.

It's rare to be treated like a friend you haven't met in a Hollywood meeting.

I have a tendency to be awfully big-hearted and it's very hard for me to say no, even when I need to.

If your dog should be dead, I'm gonna love you instead.

The artist’s job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery.

This is our Lord's will... that our prayer and our trust be, alike, large.

I really have a problem with any kind of drug, I always have.