Everyone belongs to everyone else.

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.

If you would have watched her from the roof, you would have seen a broad grin over her face.

I don’t just want to do the right thing. I want to WANT to do the right thing.

I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.

You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.

I don't think we ever clash but we do become frosty.

Any moment called NOW is always full of possibles.

My husband was getting his sea legs-rereading Joseph Conrad with a side order of C S Forester.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony.

The value of the space program is beyond science, it's beyond military; it's a cultural shift in how we think of our place in the universe.

Once you stop believing in Santa Claus, the whole world just goes downhill.