Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.

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.

Changes are inevitable and not always controllable. What can be controlled is how you manage, react to and work through the change process.

Work may be your dominant thought, and joy an afterthought. But joy is your true purpose, and work the afterthought.

There is no harvest for the heart alone. The seed of love must be eternally re-sown.

Take the tone of the company you are in...

Teaching art is a shared experience. Our ability to share our own personal vision and interact with others through art can become realized.

In them days I just as soon died -- except for my harmonica. It was like a friend who didn't give a damn if I could see or not.

Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity.

Public Speaking is a skill that can be studied, polished, perfected. Not only can you get good at it, you can get damn good at it and it makes a heck of a difference.

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!

What would please me most is to make photographs as incomprehensible as life.