An irrelevance, and your life's altered.

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.

Ultimately, we forgive others in order to free ourselves.

If you suffer some losses, remember that after humility a reward from God will always follow

They say no one knows the Bible better than the devil.

I'm human. I'm a person. I would love to be in a relationship with a man. I would love to find the right man I think that's natural - that's what we all want.

People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves.

Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?

No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy.

Some are nice and some aren't. Some are smart, and others are about as bright as a wet match in a dark cave. In other words, pretty normal.

If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.

The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight; New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil.