Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

All Socialism involves slavery.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

Let's stop kidding ourselves that Greek debt is the Euro's key problem. With Greece gone, who's next ?

We are nourished by our relationships and generosity in return to our kindness and compassion for others.

I love LA, but we don't really have beautiful natural things to look at. I just want to be in nature and go back to my roots and just see beautiful things, that's really all I want.

Belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science.

Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Life has a truth to it, and it's complicated - it's love and it's hatred.

Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation

I have been unusually blessed in that I've been allowed to pursue two strands of a career that both delight me and seem to please the public.

Fiction creating reality.

Getting married is easy. Staying married is more difficult. Staying happily married for a lifetime is among the fine arts.