Civilization means food and literature all round. Beefsteaks and fiction magazines for all. First-class proteins for the body, fourth-class love-stories for the spirit.

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.

Starting the Day— Another chance to be new again. How many of us still wish for that? To be your own sunrise. To awaken like a prayer -both solemn and joyful at still being alive.

Where does it stop? You get offered money for your wedding, then for your kids, new houses, holidays... We earn enough from football and sponsorships, why do you need any more?

I'm so happy for anyone who chooses to get married! I want more people to join the club.

The humanity of famous intellectuals lies in being wrong with gracious courtesy when dealing with those who are not famous.

Like a dart the present glances, Silent stands the past sublime.

I don't sing. I do everybody a favor and I don't sing.

God spreads grace like a 4-year old spreads peanut butter-He gets it all over everything.

We find things where we look for them.

There is a limit to how much you can change to be liked for who you really are.

We need to realize that we should be on the side of any human being who is oppressed.