Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom.

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.

I am a hoarder of words, a giver of them, too

It's a dialogue, not a monologue, and some people don't understand that. Social media is more like a telephone than a television.

It is a good idea for everyone who does not have contra-indications to receive a flu shot.

When a patient does get an organ from another person, it comes from a different body. It has different properties, and a persons natural tendency is to reject that organ.

If you want something done right, do it yourself.

My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand.

A generation ago there were a thousand men to every opportunity, while today there are a thousand opportunities to every man.

When someone is punched in the face, you find out what they are made of.

I have 120 employees on the road every day, and about 30 other employees off the road.

You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us