What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life.

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.

My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love.

Though the life is very difficult and at times quite tragic, we must nonetheless be happy for being existed, for being the miracle very itself!

What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel?

If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.

I think we all have the urge to be a clown, whether we know it or not.

If Everybody In The World Dropped Out Of School We Would Have A Much More Intelligent Society.

Christlike love is the greatest need we have on this planet

Despair is infidelity and death.

I pride myself on being a Legend Killer.

To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.