Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

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.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Diversity is essential to happiness and in Utopia there is hardly any. This is a defect in all planned social systems.

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.

Too little liberty brings stagnation, and too much brings chaos.