We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and the other which we practice but seldom preach.

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.

You build a thing of beauty, and then the peasants storm the castle, hooting and chanting and calling you a heretic.

Every human life has infinite value and to destroy even one is a crime against all humanity.

Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. Forever.

While we wait, God builds our faith in His promises.

The same common sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading.

If you can survive disappointment, nothing can beat you

I respect the path Cuba chooses to take.

I started thinking about [ what book is going to go next] when I was working on As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth.

Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.

So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like a cat trying to get out of your arms.