Of all the knowledge, that most worth having is knowledge about health! The first requisite of a good life is to be a healthy person.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

All Socialism involves slavery.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

Turn your failure into a fairy tale of success and triumph.

Good music was meant to be loud!

Give me an old house full of memories and I will give you hundred novels!

We have all sorts of stories about heaven and hell, about oblivion and nothingness, about 'coming back, ' and so on. But they are all stories.

God is incorporeal divine supreme infinite Mind Spirit Soul Principle life Truth Love.

I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff.

That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow.

Today, Snoop Dog endorsed Ron Paul for president. Snoop said he likes Paul's positions on everything from legalizing pot ... to legalizing pot.

Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.

I hate a conscience. It's always making you feel low down and disreputable. I don't believe I will say anything to my children about one, and let them have some peace.