We believe, first and foremost, what makes us feel that we are fine fellows.

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.

The imaginative is produced by the human mind as it tries to respond to something greater than itself, struggling to find images adequate to the reality.

In life things are only free after you've paid for them.

But who, in these modern times, slept well?

Not everybody that says that you suck is a hater. There are people who suck.

Contrary to what they tell you... You are not a limited material being.

All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.

I have been a witness, and these pictures are my testimony. The events I have recorded should not be forgotten and must not be repeated.

The entire annals of Observation probably do not elsewhere exhibit so extraordinary a verification of any theoretical conjecture adventured on by the human spirit!

Comedy is a very big part of the English culture, the sense of humor; it's a very dominant trait.

How narrow is the vision that exalts the busyness of the ant above the singing of the grasshopper.