Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.

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.

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

Human soul is a car and human body is a driver. One cannot run without the other.

John Hay indicates that dealing with people directly as a holder of political office "requires a stronger heart and a more obedient nervous system than I possess.

You’re in the country of the kangaroo and the duck-billed platypus, and you’re asking ‘why is it a mushroom? Because it just IS.

A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself he is as a wave of the sea or a feather in the air which every breeze blows about.

A councillor ought not to sleep the whole night through - a man to whom the populace is entrusted and who has many responsibilities.

I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.

Afghanistan is the most daring and ambition mission in the history of NATO.

The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep.

There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.