The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways.

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.

Are women beautiful or aren't we?

You should open these doors with care and caution-but, first, you must know how to close them. And above all, you must know which doors should be left unopened...

To change undesirable behaviors we see in the world, we must change the thinking that leads to those behaviors.

An insecure person will attempt to make you think that your strengths are weaknesses so that you can also feel insecure.

People are so involved with immediate care, but at the same time there needs to be investment in educating people as adolescents when they're still HIV negative.

Even if I don't reach all my goals, I've gone higher than I would have if I hadn't set any.

Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate

A man was the cause of it all. An unarmed man with a weapon.

Anybody who achieves what Malcolm Fraser achieved in his life deserves respect as a quite extraordinary Australian.

Make a little space, and get out of your own way.