In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

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.

Sometimes, when inspiration runs dry, I drink classical music until my words spill out.

Sloth and Silence are a Fool's Virtues

I do pauses, pauses work for me

I like directors who come on the set and create something that's a little dangerous, difficult or unusual.

Old houses, I thought, do not belong to people ever, not really, people belong to them.

I just don’t see the point of talking unless there’s something to say.

Daniel Grigori!" Arriane hooted through her hands. "No!" Daniel hooted back without missing a beat.

I see a clear breach of ahimsa even in driving away monkeys; the breach would be proportionately greater if they have to be killed.

Nobody really wants to hear about anybody else's injuries. Or how your back feels. Whose back doesn't hurt?

Authenticity pushes us past our comfort zone - it's meant to.