The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

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.

Work and pray, live on hay, You'll get pie in the sky when you die.-Joe Hill, The Preacher and the Slave

I am taking time to relax, renew and revive.

With their backs to the sunrise they worship the night.

I also love horseback riding in New Jersey.

We are standing on a whale fishing for minnows.

I went to an all boys' school in South London and the only god was sport.

Obviously the Asian American community wants you to do well. They are cheering you on no matter what the circumstances.

For most of my life, I’ve felt that there must be more to our existence than meets the eye. This is who I am, and you can’t expect me to be someone I’m not.

Eating wildlife is probably not the smartest thing that we can do in terms of maintaining the integrity of natural systems.

...too much sadness hath congealed your blood,And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.