I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him.

Cigars served me for precisely fifty years as protection and a weapon in the combat of life... I owe to the cigar a great intensification of my capacity to work and a facilitation of my self-control.

Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men's actions.

Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up.

No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.

Philosophers stretch the meaning of words until they retain scarcely anything of their original sense. They give the name of "God" to some vague abstraction which they have created for themselves; having done so they can pose before all the world as deists, as believers of God, and they can even boast that they have recognized a higher, purer concept of God, notwithstanding that their God is not nothing more than an insubstantial shadow and no longer the mighty personality of religious doctrines.

It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too