Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

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.

Don't listen the words, hear the reason of the words.

I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.

There's nothing to catch up on. You came, you saw, you scored, you left. End of story.

Time cures one of everything-even of living.

Eventually everyone will have the opportunity to travel onto space.

I don't think you ever stopped Bobby Orr. You contained Bobby Orr, but you never stopped him. When we played the Bruins and Bobby had to give up the puck, it was a good play.

Why shouldn't man be as angry about not having always been alive as about having to stop being alive?

Misery comes the moment you become clinging, attached. The moment you put conditions on life.

There is no genius without a mixture of madness.

I can do anything I want to do!