Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.

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.

Belane, are you nuts?"Who knows? Insanity is comparative. Who sets the norm?

The first sigh of love is the last of wisdom.

Watch your motive before God have no other motive in prayer than to know Him.

I love the solitude of being on a plane and finally getting to read an entire book and being left alone.

The Constitution established the United States of America as a Christian nation.

Alex is dead, do you hear me? All of that-what we felt, what it meant- that's done now, okay? Buried. Blown away.

I have a hidden wild side, and the older I get the more it comes out.

I hate that people think it's wrong to say you're inspired by Jaws or by Raiders Of The Lost Ark. You're allowed to be.

Use unlikely materials. Who would choose Pnin as hero, but how did we live before Pnin?