...what is the use of making everybody rich if the rich themselves are miserable?

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.

I train my kids to dream really big and impossible dreams and to pursue them doggedly.

Giving up represents a choice you make when you decide not to take action on something over which you actually do have control.

I don't think everything is going to get peachy ever. But I think we have to fight for what we believe in.

MTV has severely compromised surrealism, perhaps ruined it forever.

Performers and their public should never meet. Once the curtain comes down, the performer should fly away like a magician's dove.

Nothing teaches you like getting leveled. And I got leveled in my early 30s. Nothing went exactly the way I thought it would.

The greatest thing to be achieved in advertising, in my opinion, is believability, and nothing is more believable than the product itself.

Opportunity is coy, is swift, is gone, before the slow, the unobservant, the indolent, or the careless can seize her.

The important thing is not the planning of an Index Verborum Prohibitorum of current noble nouns, but rather the examination of their linguistic function.

The doubts of an honest man contain more moral truth than the profession of faith of people under a worldly yoke.