Given a fair chance, human beings can govern themselves, and govern themselves better

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'll say I love you, Which will lead, of course, to disappointment, but those words unsaidpoison every next moment.I will try to disappoint youbetter than anyone else has.

The far we can see, we are! It is time we lifted our eyes beyond the horizon of our present boundaries and see goodies ahead of us.

Turbulence means nothing if God is the pilot.

The income effects in an economy always sum to zero.

Who you are moment to moment is just a story.

If you shift your focus from oneself to others, and think more about others' well-being and welfare, it has an immediate liberating effect.

Just as the camera draws a stake through the heart of serious portraiture, television has killed the novel of social reportage.

Religious traditions can be reinterpreted in a manner that assists healing, corrects distortions, and expands vision.

We live in a world where black humanity is a relatively new idea.

I don't necessarily need 400 pounds on my back in the squat rack, and then take a picture of myself and send it out to my Twitter followers, 'Part of the 400 pound club today.'