In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

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

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact they do so.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

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

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

All movements go too far.

Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

Obscenity is what happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

The things that we love tell us what we are.

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.

Why waste good shots in practice when you might need them in a match?

Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness.

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

Believe in yourself and there will come a day when others will have no choice but to believe with you.

Life is not about "OR" - it is about "AND". It is magical and messy. It is heartwarming and heartbreaking. It is delight and disappointment. Grace and grief. Exquisite and excruciating, often at the exact same time.