Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

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.

Only courageous hearts can endure the bitterness of truth.

He dropped his head and kissed her. He kisses her and it was a kiss of utter certainty, the kind of kiss during which monarchs die and whole continents fall without your even noticing.

The answer of our prayers is secured by the fact that in rejecting them God would in a certain sense deny His own nature.

It's important for young women and men coming out of the fashion schools to think seriously before starting their own collections.

Im a perfectionist and, when it comes to people I want to work with, I have changed my mind, like, millions of times.

Not a Harvard-type education, just a not-sticking-up-a-liquor-store-type education.

Lonely dissent doesn't feel like going to school dressed in black. It feels like going to school wearing a clown suit.

I'm a very proud actor.

A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Troubles take wing for the man who can sing.