[I am not] the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

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.

When you think you can, you will have the grace to take action.

Violet Lynn Parker, you’d better spill or I’ll start bellowing ‘Happy Birthday’ to you in my Bobcat Goldthwait voice.

It seems to me that this debate, whether Islam is a religion of peace or not, really, it's irrelevant for outsiders. It's for Muslims to decide whether it's a religion of peace or not.

As we lose ourselves in the service of others, we discover our own lives and our own happiness.

Decide the friends, mentors & leaders you want in your life, in your inner circle, and court them with emotional generosity. Make it matter.

Herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses.

We like to imagine that in history, truth will prevail through sheer persuasive power. Sadly, this is not the case. Truth needs champions.

The greatest triumph of our educational method should always be this: to bring about the spontaneous progress of the child.

Men's language is as their lives.

Whatever movies I sign, they have to get me out of my comfort zone. Otherwise, I would get bored very easily.