Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.

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.

There are no such thing as ghosts.” Joseph replied.“There are supposedly no such things as Vampires and yet here you are.” Grace quipped flippantly.

I work in a strange business, and 'trust' is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

Although actions may speak louder than words, it is our intentions that reveal our soul.

Me and music are not good friends, so I do my best to augment the music part [of my films] and come up with something worth watching.

Married couples, may we never forget that when attacks come the grace of the sacrament is eternally stronger than we are.

Life is too short to do anything that's not challenging.

With 1.7 million private sector jobs lost and half a million jobs shipped overseas over the past three years, we must take action to spur job creation and restore economic prosperity.

Half the art of ballooning is to make your crashes so gentle that you can fool yourself into calling them landings.

I'd do anything to get a performance, short of malice.

'Visiting Mr. Green' is a good play. I enjoy being in it, and I have a wonderful colleague, Aidan deSalaiz, to work with. Audiences like it a lot. What's not to like?