A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.

Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself.

We are soon approaching a refined holiday, "Merry Mas, " where Christ will be taken out of its context.

There is a lot of willful incompetence in high altitude astronomy that is in the process of coming to light.

She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.

Buhhdism is wisdom. As long as we have wisdom, we can put all things to the best use, we can turn everything in the direction of happiness.

The miraculous thing is that miracles do happen.

[Songs] have to be a part of you. They have to be in your DNA. That's how I approached it.

As a kid, I was a pretty good little sprinter.

Enough is enough and it's time for a change.

Money will never make you happy if you are an unhappy person.