Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.

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.

My only advice is to feel with joy, listen with your heart, be kind to all, be compassionate when needed, and love endlessly.

If you start each day happy and treat people with more kindness, it determines the way you live your day. It's all about your choices!

Earth is wonderful stadium to play, till you are on pitch.

I thought everyone must know that a short jacket is always worn with a silk hat at a private view in the morning.

I'll miss it until the day I die, and I'm convinced to this day that I can get on a horse and jump a course of fences satisfactorily. It doesn't leave you.

Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.

The more sensible a woman is, supposing her not to be masculine, the more attractive she is in her proportionate power to entertain.

My life was my life; I would have to stare it down, somehow, and make it work for me.

It's sad when two people who could never part without a kiss come to the point where they never part and so never kiss.

Judged by the dollars spent, gambling is now more popular in America than baseball, the movies, and Disneyland-combined.