The key to happiness is accepting one unpleasant reality every day.

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

When you come to look into this argument from design, it is a most astonishing thing that people can believe that this world, with all the things that are in it, with all its defects, should be the best that omnipotence and omniscience has been able to produce in millions of years.

Vanity is a motive of immense potency.

The time has come, or is about to come, when only large-scale civil disobedience, which should be nonviolent, can save the populations from the universal death which their governments are preparing for them.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

Affection cannot be created; it can only be liberated.