The sea, the stars, the night wind in waste places, mean more to me than even the human beings I love best.

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.

He ought to let the past keep its glow and not try to mix it with what he had in the present.

It is culture that is the b

Necessity is often the spur to genius.

I put projects together. I put people together.

All things can be forgiven if we can progress.

But there are not a few who would be indignant at having their belief in God questioned, who yet seem greatly to fear imagining Him better than He is.

I don't care where I work. Films are an international business - not an American institution.

Philosophers say that nothing can be seen that is neither illuminated nor colored.

You want to understand the smallest feature set customers will pay for in the first release.

What higher approval could a person enjoy than to know that what he or she has done is pleasing to God?