Hell is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as.

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.

Tibby, who was not fond of change, had once told Bridget that the present, no matter what it brought, couldn't change the past. The past was set and sealed.

Gifts of the heart can't be claimed by anyone except the giver.

The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord God has made His greatest gifts the commonest.

I get up and I bless the light thin clouds and the first twittering of birds and the breathing air and smiling face of the hills.

A crucial Elite group behind the Civil War was the Knights of the Golden Circle, again based in Cincinnati, Ohio.

There is no such thing as a baby, there is a baby and someone.

In times of horror and torment prayer is a great thing Nobody answers But at least it stops you from thinking.

You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

The Christianity that saves is a thing personally grasped, personally experienced, personally felt and personally possessed.

I dont want to be someone in my sixties holding on to a group that I created when I was in my twenties.