Liberate yourselves from everything you know and look with complete innocence at this infinitely improbable thing before you.

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.

Time is passing : not leaden steppingBut sprinting on winged feet, Quick silver slipping by.

Powerful leaders use their position of power to empower others.

Slowly and painfully man is learning that he must do unto others what he would have them do to him.

Love and lies can corrupt even the purest heart.

Let the states of equilibrium and harmony exist in perfection, and a happy order will prevail throughout heaven and earth, and all things will be nourished and flourish.

Churches are healthier and stronger if they assume responsibility both for financing their own programs and for stimulating their members to accept that responsibility.

Mothers of today have no greater opportunity and no more serious challenge than to do all they can to strengthen the home.

Every German soldier must be made to feel that he is living under the muzzle of a Russian gun.

I think the Bush tax cuts should be made permanent.

Come live, and be merry, and join with me, To sing the sweet chorus of 'Ha ha he!