Dying is almost the least spiritual of our acts, more strictly carnal even than the act of love. There are Death Agonies that are like the strainings of the Costive at stool.

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.

Life is journey through either experiences or experiment.

Don’t feel guilty for a crime you have not committed – commit it and be guilt free

All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.

It never gets easier; you just go faster.

There's nothing else I would rather do, unless there was a profession that involved cuddling bunny rabbits and kittens all day for money.

There are no such things as happy endings. Never. They're totally manufactured by fiction writers who choose to end the story on a high point.

Learning to trust our intuition is an art form, and like all other art forms, it takes practice to perfect.

I want to go working with good people on something that's good, because otherwise it's a big waste of time. I don't have that much time.

Commitment achieves today what yesterday was impossible.

The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression.