I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.