If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats.

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 set out on a narrow way many years ago, hoping I would find true love along the broken road

Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.

When people pushes you to end, trust God fully because two things are likely to happen. Either He holds when you fall or teaches you how to fly.

The pleasures of the rich are bought with the tears of the poor.

The trouble with flowers is that invariably, when I'm ready to photograph them, they are not in season.

Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history.

I've got a fantastic life. I enjoy what I do for a living. I see the blessings; I'm not blind.

The greatest misfortune that can come to a human being is to lose his inner peace. No outer force can rob him of it. It is his own thoughts, his own actions, that rob him of it.

We are taking way more out of the ocean than the ocean can replenish.

Forget 'branding' and 'positioning.' Once you understand customer behavior, everything else falls into place.