After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

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.

Companies don't succeed, people do. Companies don't fail, people do.

If i were to lose a friend...then i couldn't die in peace!

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.

I've found that if you're not responsive to e-mail, it trains people to leave you alone.

If Christ is risen, nothing else matters. And if Christ is not risen-nothing else matters.

Outside is dark. The kitchen light is loud. It deafens me as I walk towards it.

People think it’s easy to be cynical and pessimistic, but it’s incredibly hard work. It’s much easier to be hopeful.

Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world.

I focus a lot on my voice because I want it to be an instrument as well. I want my voice to add color.