In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country.

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.

The more honest you are, the more open, the less fear you will have, because there's no anxiety about being exposed or revealed to others.

Saying of the Mulla Nasrudin. If I survive this life without dying, I'll be surprised.

Without art the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Enjoy every minute. There's plenty of time to be dead.

Every need got an ego to feed.

I think science is about the search for God; it just comes at it from a different angle than religion.

I am imperfect in a million ways, but I always thought I was the kind of woman, the kind of wife to whom a husband would be faithful.

There's this shop in New York I go to; it has bones and fossils and insects that are like works of art. I have a few on my wall.

I decided in '96 to dedicate my life to mostly promoting literacy and education for girls in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Wine in excess keeps neither secrets nor promises.