Chaos and ineptitude are anti-human; but so too is a superlatively efficient government, equipped with all the products of a highly developed technology.

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.

The mind confines our outlooks to a mere bundles of desires, pleasures, prejudices, and fears to safeguard the body it inhabits.

Our lives teach us who we are." I have learned the hard way that when you permit anyone else's description of reality to supplant your own ... then you might as well be dead.

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

Acting, music, painting... it's very subjective. So what I might think is a great actor, you might think is not a very good actor at all.

There are times we need to tell ourselves, "Good job!" when we know that is true.

Me as a backup center? Hell no.

If Vladimir Putin says great things about me, I'm going to say great things about him.

Everyday begins like a blank chalkboard, on which each one of us can write the poem of our present and our dreams for the future.

In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can seem incomprehensible rather than noble.