Henri IV's feet and armpits enjoyed an international reputation.

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 was something important being overlooked, they argued, in the mainstreaming of meditation - a central plank in the Buddhist platform: compassion.

...after rare beef and wine, when the lobes turn red, was the time to ask favours or tell bad news.

Every opportunity worth pursuing comes with a price tag. Either sweat or sacrifice. Sometimes both.

An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.

There are no 'come shoot me' clothes.

The first choral music I remember hearing was Handel's 'Messiah' when the Mormon Tabernacle Choir broadcast it over the radio.

Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.

Wait. You work for me?" "I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence.

Well, the coolest thing I have seen so far, in terms of, like, me being an astronaut and seeing something unusual, was the rendezvous, the docking of a Progress spaceship.

Why did everything always change when all you wanted, all you had ever humbly asked of whatever God there might be, was that certain things be allowed to stay the same?