Craving for power is not a vice of the body, consequently it knows none of the limitations imposed by a tired or satiated physiology upon gluttony, intemperance and lust

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.

Except for the grace of God, I would be nobody - and that grace is the opposite of merit - human labour, education or human wisdom.

There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.

One ought to be ashamed to make use of the wonders of science embodied in a radio set, the while appreciating them as little as a cow appreciates the botanic marvels in the plants she munches.

I think that former leaders are best seen occasionally and not too often heard - particularly on the subject of their successors!

Don't criticize that man unless you have walked in his shoes.

If a woman is to know herself, then periods of solitude should be courted, planned, and embraced.

There's so much that you can do if you mimic your style to a drum machine. I think that's far more exciting.

Maintaining silence about a dirty truth is another way of lying, a common practice in high places.

Good men and women can be mobilized to ensure that South Africa is united and that the spirit of reconciliation is strengthened and that progress in this country takes place as fast as it can.