To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-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.

Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives

However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.

Words are wind, Brienne told herself. They cannot hurt you. Let them wash over you.

What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.

Voluntary association produces the free market - where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities.

That Yes, I know what you mean-that is the technical definition of Best Friend Forever.

What I write is emotionally honest and truthful as the human experience can be, to make people feel less alone, or at least that's the hope.

Morality has nothing to do with such a man as I am.

There's no such thing as a small part. There are just small actors.