The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

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.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

remembering is a great invention of the mind, and if you try hard enough you can remember anything, whether it really happened or not.

Life gives you no guarantees. So, you love with all you have. And enjoy the time you’re given. If not, what’s it all for anyway?

I’m always soft for you, that’s the problem. You could come knocking on my door five years from now and I would open my arms wider and say ‘come here, it’s been too long, it felt like home with you.

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.

It's like Scott Wolf, I never thought he looked like Tom Cruise until somebody said it and now that they've said it, I see it every time I look at him!

I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it.

If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag, wash it.

All my career, I've said this: Critics and producers think audiences want actors that only present the silhouette and hit the points in the silhouette. What I do is too dangerous.

What is so seductive about texting, about keeping that phone on, about that little red light on the BlackBerry, is you want to know who wants you.

I believe the United States should allow all foreigners in this country, provided they can speak our native language... Apache.