We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

Throughout the long period of religious doubt, I had been rendered very unhappy by the gradual loss of belief, but when the process was completed, I found to my surprise that I was quite glad to be done with the whole subject.

The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.

Beware the man of the single book

no one ever gossips about the virtues of others

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.