Truth is for the gods; from our human point of view, it is an ideal, towards which we can approximate, but which we cannot hope to reach.

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 suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job

I am the Merlin, bane of the Vale, terror of the four lands. I am chaos and shadows, the last of my people.

She was on a real, grown-up adventure, no matter how badly it should turn out.

The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the ear in real drama.

There has to be a reason and objective (to air strikes). What does it do to move the effort down the road for a political conversation?

I sit in thy shadow but not alone.

It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus.

What I'm most fascinated by is the ability of art to induce changes, but remain grounded solidly in its art practice.

How can we be trusted with big things if we're not trustworthy with things that are small? Don't allow your finer instincts to become a casualty of the little everyday crimes of ethical compromise.

It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only the application of them that is human.