God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

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.

Life is so short, transient, and beautiful that there is not enough time to get old.

Just as a prism refracts light differently when you change its angle, each experience of love illuminates love in new ways, drawing from an infinite palette of patterns and hues.

As his body became more and more defenseless, so his means of offense became steadily more frightful.

I've always had fond memories of cooking Thanksgiving.

What is the "extraordinary"? It is the love of Jesus Christ himself, love that goes to the cross in suffering obedience.

Talk was like the vitamins of our friendship: Large daily doses kept it healthy.

The real magic wand is the child's own mind.

Only when you get into TV and film, do people really want you to be a 'specialist'.

It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.

At 17, I dreamed of seeing the world. At 19, I had been around the world and back.