To the primitive mind, everything is either friendly or hostile; but experience has shown that friendliness and hostility are not the conceptions by which the world is to be understood.

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.

Being free means "being free for the other, " because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free

It is necessary to fall in love – the better to provide an alibi for all the despair we are going to feel anyway.

A person who is confident and capablewill never feel insecure.

I understand your problem. I'd like to help you out

When somebody speaks a language that we don’t know, we often imagine that some important things are being said!

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets?

You never really realize how many people care about you until they all turn out to support you.

It looks like I had the most irrelevant education than anybody in the planet could have.

They say things happen in three. I won with the great Kobe, the great D-Wade and now it's my job to win one with the great LeBron James. We have everything in place. We just got to get it done.