Complete prohibition of all chemical mind changers can be decreed, but cannot be enforced, and tends to create more evils than it cures.

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.

It’s a strange feeling when you realise that you have become a passive bystander, watching the quirks of your own fate with an icy indifference.

Immortals must always give humans one thing! Either fear and terror! Or beauty!!

I don't think you can be a director without a kind of sense of competitiveness.

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

I do not believe in miracles, I rely on them.

You can never truly enjoy Christmas until you can look up into the Father's face and tell him you have received his Christmas gift.

Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like

The proud man hath no God; the envious man hath no neighbor; the angry man hath not himself.

The day we receive Jesus Christ as our Savior is one of the greatest days of our lives. Not only are our sins washed away, but God puts His Spirit inside of us and gives us new desires.

The priest has just baptized you a Christian with water; and I baptize you a Frenchman, daring child, with a dewdrop of champagne on your lips.