When people begin to philosophize they seem to think it necessary to make themselves artificially stupid.

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.

There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.

If a wolf attacks his sheep, the shepard kills the wolf, but he eats the sheep when he's hungry.

You don't just accidentally show up in the World Series.

Our teen-agers withdrew to their bedrooms on their thirteenth birthday and didn't show themselves to us again until it was time to get married.

The best happiness will be to escape the worst misery.

Bisexuality is not so much a cop-out as a fearful compromise.

I don't think crucifixion is the answer. I believe in the resurrection. I like that part of the story.

The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic.

I am grateful for the men and women who pastor, who lead in churches across our country. Ultimately, their role of loving people and seeing hearts changed is probably the greatest calling.

No one can help another very much in these crises of life; but love and sympathy count for something.