The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.

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.

Anyone with a form of godliness is promoting ungodliness, whether ignorantly or knowingly.

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

I'd kiss you if I could, " I whispered. Jared's breath caressed my skin. "I have other shirts." I smiled and kissed him.

I'd sneer and tell him he's got the cerebral finesse of an amoeba and delight in his squint of confusion.

By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be growing old.

Nobody is wired wrong, because there's no wrong and right in the way we are.

Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.

I think your heart dances to the beat of your own drum, and I’m the happiest I’ve ever been.

Youth is like a long weekend on Friday night. Middle age is like a long weekend on Monday afternoon.

I was a hero, and a second afterwards it was all over. Casartelli was dead so what I had achieved was worth nothing.