God and Satan alike are essentially human figures, the one a projection of ourselves, the other of our enemies.

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.

Most great products have been made over the dead bodies of experts.

Don't dilute your core message burning in your spirit just to satisfy the masses

Begin each new day with your knees bow in prayer.

I give you my name, my earthly possessions, and my eternal love. But of all the things I have, the thing I want most to give you are my eyes, these eyes that see how magnificently beautiful you are.

Unless we take that first step into the unknown, we will never know our own potential.

We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.

The financial crisis happened because no-one could actually say out loud how bad things were.

These are the people who are going to see the pictures in my museum.

The truth is that the sole reason we don’t see the world all around us as magic is that we are jaded, too cool for the school of wonder.

Let us bear with magnanimity whatever it is needful for us to bear.