... the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.

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.

Just as the rain carries positive ions, so does change make you more apt to experience love with an expansive heart.

Science gave us forensics. Law gave us crime.

When the earth is sick and polluted, human health is impossible.... To heal ourselves we must heal our planet, and to heal our planet we must heal ourselves.

If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.

There is no such thing as Superwoman. You cant have everything if you do everything.

I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.

I think normalization is a good thing.

Find the most puzzling kind of art you can think of, and then go out and try to approximate it with your camera. Take a photograph that corresponds to it. (Assignment to students.)

I think it's very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation.

The word is a force you cannot see, but you can see the manifestation of that force, the expression of the word, which is your own life.