...impregnation will be regarded in an entirely different manner, more in the light of a surgical operation, so that it will be thought not ladylike to have it performed in the natural manner.

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.

no one tells you rome is ending until you're the last one standing alone in a coliseum where a city had been.

Humility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open fell.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

I can be such a people pleaser, and so worried about what people are thinking or feeling insecure.

Testing children until they cry is a bad idea. It is an educational malpractice.

There's no way a human being can escape his or her human-ness to be able to imagine God. We can talk about how we've experienced God, not what or who God is.

Art itself is female - it is full of graciousness, cadence, color, rhythm. It's full of love and grace.

When will you start asking different questions? Better questions?

If I'd made it right away as an actor, I would've stopped at a certain level and stayed there, probably as a character actor.