Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition.

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.

Every creation comes from the Creator.

[Jesus] said, “Those who are strong have no need of a physician, but those who are ill.…For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners” (Matt. 9:10-13). Jesus opened up God’s heart to men.

For me, I can not be right in anything unless there is no counter thoughts that contradict my wrong, in this case my thoughts will be right.

I can't do an accent unless I'm on the set. I forget how to do it until I'm on the set.

Work, alternated with needful rest, is the salvation of man or woman.

If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.

If satan can keep you in the sense realm, he will destroy you - but if you keep him in the faith realm, you'll put him under your feet.

Skating can make you feel athletic, graceful, beautiful.

We fell in love quickly. We got married very quickly. It didn't work out the way we wanted it to. There's nothing more to it.

Alleviating poverty would be the Bank's overarching objective.