But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed - a compass, not a weathercock.

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.

Of course she wants him to forget her. The last place she wants to reside is in his thoughts. What an unpleasant place to be.

Sometimes you have a little problem and you dont fix it and then all of a sudden it aint a littleproblem anymore.

I don't care what you say about me if I don't find you physically attractive.

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.

We are in control of the one asset that we all give the most f#%ks about, and that is time.

I'd much rather talk about guitar playing. I hate it when people ask me about my lyrics. I always feel like telling them to just go and read them.

I've always gravitated towards people who are extreme. Whether its drugs, or kicking down doors. Normally, the people in my life had to escape to get back.

I was in jail four and a half years. When I came out, I continued the same struggle against injustice, but instead of using weapons, I began to use art and cinema.

But she named the infant "Pearl," as being of great price-purchased with all she had-her mother's only treasure!

Under the Constitution, the president, not the Senate, nominates and appoints judges. The Senate has a different role. We must give our advice .