Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond.

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 have done your best and still failed, use Cosmic Ordering.

Shakespeare has had neither equal nor second.

What is human in me is not what is best in me. What is human in me is that I desire, and to obtain what I desire, I believe I would crush anything that stood in my way.

Eventually, we can get to a system where an electric company will be able to hold back some of the power so that maybe your air conditioner won't operate at its peak.

A few of the girls and I jumped into my jetta and took off. "Lets go stand outside someone from Glee's house now," one of them said

Nothing is more dangerous that the politician who uses politics as a surrogate for an unsatisfactory personal life.

I love being able to reach people directly, but in an ideal scenario, I would not have to rush the release of new music… but the message is still there.

There are always things that you see that are pretty tough, sure. But what keeps you going is when you see people rise above toughness and rise above really hard conditions, and make something of it.

He is as wise as a serpent and as innocent as a dove.

Therefore am I still a lover of the meadows and the woods, and mountains; and of all that we behold from this green earth.