The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.

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.

No matter what you want to do, you still have to start where you are.

It’s a bet – the more you Give, the more you will Get.

Power of softness and kindness are the greatest.

The broken can always be fixed

There is no man so good who were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it.

For a thing to remain undone nothing more is needed than to think of it done.

One thing I always loved about hip-hop music was the raw, boom-bap element - it felt powerful and manly.

Nicotine and alcohol embraced in my system like long-parted siblings, grateful to me for reuniting them.

I'm thankful there are children watching at home who can finally relate to a new Miss America.