I get up and retire when I wish. I go out if I wish and I do not go out if I do not desire to do so, except for the two days on which I give lectures.

It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.

In matters of religion, it is very easy to deceive a man and very hard to undeceive him.

The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.

If an historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weaknesses, and disorders of mankind, his readers would take his work for satire rather than for history.

There was no other God, religion, or lawful magistracy, than conscience, which teaches all men the precepts of Justice, to do no injury, to live honestly, and give everyone his due.

It is pure illusion to think that an opinion which passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.

No nations are more warlike than those which profess Christianity.

It is only common prejudice that induces us to believe that atheism is a fearful state.

Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.

I am a good Protestant, and in the full sense of the term, for from the bottom of my soul, I protest against everything that is said, and everything that is done.

Kadafi is a zombie in a pillbox hat, that's what he is!

Originality and the feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.

I think it's just getting comfortable in New York City, comfortable in your own skin.

But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb, not a noun.

Once you turn something into something, its universal usage is over.

He lasted about as long as the dessert tray at Rosie O'Donnell's house.

Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me... aren't you?

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

Obstacles are an opportunity to create something new

By 2025, 80 percent of the functions doctors do will be done much better and much more cheaply by machines and machine learned algorithms.