The consistent thinker ... is either a walking mummy or else if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality a fanatical monomaniac.

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.

Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again

You cannot instill joy. You can only find where it lives and bring it forth.

It's good to be on the edge, but I have never followed my mind. I have always followed my heart. And it has yielded the right results.

If you let the image of the messenger get in the way of whatever message there may be, however large or small, that's your problem, not his.

The boss is not paying you. They just keep the money for you only. New customers who actually paid

I'm never satisfied with the way I look.

Gratitude is the antidote to bitterness and resentment.

Jump off the beam, flip off the bars follows your dreams, and reach for the stars

It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.

American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.