Experience is not what happens to you it is what you do with what happens to you.

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.

No one can give you freedom

Only five books tonight, Mommy, " she says.No, Olivia, just one."How about four?"Two."Three."Oh, all right, three. But that's it!

Much of history turns out to be the consequence of small acts of fortune, accident or luck, good or bad.

Lost, so small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky.

We are in this period now where we all are trying to be in shape physically and deny ourselves any pleasure.

When families can afford the basics, they can reinvest in their communities, and higher wages means a broader consumer base for businesses.

I prefer a government run like hell by Filipinos to a government run like heaven by Americans.

Whatever you are holding onto in this life, hold it loosely so it won’t hurt when the Lord has to pry your fingers open to take it away.

Sometimes it's necessary to believe in love, even if it doesn't exist.