People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

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.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you'd be okay.

I don't mind the high price of stardom. I just don't like the high price of mediocrity.

My lifes a wreck, and I love it.

The fundamentals of baseball haven't changed, but how we can teach those fundamentals has. With an e-book, learning can be more rewarding and fun.

Lincoln had a tremendous capacity for personal growth - more than any other American President.

God put a million, million doors in the world for His love to walk through. One of those doors is you.

This is what I love to do. I love to perform for people that get it or just want something interesting.

With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.

I was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when I got there, I was the dumbest person in your class.

The minimum necessary structuring ingredient of every ideology is to distance itself from another ideology, to denounce its other as ideology.