When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.

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.

Would you dare to reach inside the vault of a feral heart?Glare into the keyhole, eyes bound with intrigue...is it real what we perceive? or does the absent colour leave you lost or decieved?

I’m a nice person. I give money to starving babies and properly tip my hairdresser. Why am I the one everyone tries to kill?

Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.

Obviously, I didn't think, and nobody else did, that the Iraqis were going to take all of Kuwait .

Thats one of the challenges of investing in China, is the lack of clarity with respect to tax positions.

If people want a role model, they can have Miley Cyrus.

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

There are some things we can't choose, but in being present we can choose how we want to relate to them

The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.