All great books contain boring portions, and all great lives have contained uninteresting stretches.

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.

Mama says that satisfaction isn't what I should search for. Respect is. Respect?I detest that word. Probably because in this world you have to respect the wrong people for the wrong reasons.

Writing a book is easy, getting people to read it is the hard part.

We are puppets of our subconscious desires.

People tend to think of overweight and obesity as strictly a personal matter, but there is much that communities can and should do to address these problems.

To paint well, I need to be enraptured by my subjects.

the mode of delivering a truth makes, for the most part, as much impression on the mind of the listener as the truth itself.

Sudden total weight loss.

The devil is in the details, and everything we do in the military is a detail.

A player who makes a team great is better than a great player.

I was so very interested in literature and so relatively uninterested in the movies when I was a teenager.