Sleep is the most blessed and blessing of all natural graces.

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.

Why do you want to fall in love when love is inside you?

He [Jesus] had a terrible temper, you know, undoubtedly inherited from His Father.

Never buy a stock immediately after a substantial rise or sell one immediately after a substantial drop.

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

I got into therapy in the fifth grade because I said in a sarcastic way that I was going to kill myself, and they didn't get it then. Nothing's changed.

Vocation is the place where the world's greatest need and a person's greatest joy meet.

Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf Than that I may not disappoint myself, That in my action I may soar as high As I can now discern with this clear eye.

My belief is guns don't kill people, people kill people.

When we went to Belfast we saw some beautiful countryside and coastlines.

My dear girl. I am his family. I am permanent. You are only temporary.