“Sin is geographical.”

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

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

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

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

No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.

There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.

So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

I’ve turned down a lot of arena dates because I’ve done the big-arena thing. Now, I want to do something where people can feel me and I can feel them.

Because of the media, the way the world is perceived is as a place where resources and time are running out. We’re taught that you have to grab what you can before it’s gone. It’s almost as if there isn’t time for compassion.

We must use our lives to make the world a better place to live, not just to acquire things. That is what we are put on the earth for.

I think anybody can take a good picture. My idea of a good picture is one that’s in focus and of a famous person doing something unfamous. It’s being in the right place at the wrong time.

My mother taught me beauty really lives in places like a smile.

There is no need to get to a place of prayer; pray wherever you are.

And while everybody was busy laughing, what was I doing? I was laying the foundation to what I have in place now.

I get to go to all these beautiful places, so it’s nice being able to take pictures of it.