One of the great attractions of patriotism

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.

In still moments by the sea life seems large-drawn and simple. It is there we can see into ourselves.

Ask God to give you the fifty-year view of your hurt.

Our conduct is an advertisement for or against Jesus Christ. That’s why unity in the body of Christ is so important.

Puerto Rico was the Republic of Texas on jet-fuel testosterone and psychedelic estrogen.

Vices are their own punishment

A mind that doesn't question its judgements, makes the world very small and dangerous.

But if you aren't any religion, how are you going to know if you should join the Y or the Jewish Community Center?

She was petite, small in that way that made a man want to slay dragons.

Failure makes us envious. Success makes us greedy.

Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys, and women more than men.