Right conduct can never, except by some rare accident, be promoted by ignorance or hindered by knowledge.

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.

Repentance brings restoration.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Experience is the worst teacher it gives the test before presenting the lesson.

I did my first film with Francis Ford Copploa which spoiled the hell out of me.

Envy does not allow humanity to sleep.

I never knew how soothing trees are-many trees and patches of open sunlight, and tree presences; it is almost like having another being.

I've been part of founding three companies that have gone public. It doesn't seem like a big number, but it's actually a lot.

Cardboard is another material that's ubiquitous and everybody hates, yet when I made furniture with it everybody loved it.

When the story is good enough, people can watch something three times the length of an opera.

Listen, a lot of religions have fundamentalists.