Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.

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.

I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.

Give me where to stand and I will move the earth.

A lot of people love to do affirmations first thing in the morning - to keep themselves feeling peppy and positive.

I don't do facials or any of that stuff, but my workout regime does tend to depend on whether I have to take my top off in my next film because otherwise I know I'm too heavy.

I wouldn't mind having another shot at doing comedy, but I'm not sure that's the way I'd want to go.

falsehood is not more unjustifiable than unsafe.

I'm amazed that I can still play really. But I can.

Duty is the grandest of ideas, because it implies the idea of God, of the soul, of liberty, of responsibility, of immortality.

This great blue world of ours is but a house of leaves, moments before the wind.

Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality.