All democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it is extremely important not to let any one person or small group have too much power for too long a time

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.

Good is of God.

Remember that you are an Englishman and consequently have won first prize in the lottery of life.

Happiness greatness pride-nothing is secure nothing keeps.

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.

I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.

I have sworn before a picture of the old and mourned comrade Stalin that I won’t rest until I see these capitalist octopuses annihilated.

And but two ways are offered to our will, Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace, The problem still for us and all of human race.

Chris Rock is a good friend of mine, and he is hysterical.

Although very few people are actually called upon to live in palaces a very large number are unwilling to admit the fact.

It is the individual's ability to deal with the unexpected that characterizes the difference between success and failure.