Liberty is the right to do what I like; licence, the right to do what you like.

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.

I never held Negroes to be inherently inferior. The statement in Marriage and Morals refers to environmental conditioning. I have had it withdrawn from subsequent editions because it is clearly ambiguous.

Shakespeare . . . If he does not give you delight, you had better ignore him [if you can].

Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.

If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation do you prefer the grain to the vote?

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