The silent bear no witness against themselves.

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.

The power we were given to think, is to enable us to live better lives, not fool more people.

Pain is never permanent.

I don't actually think “true love” is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn't true it can't be love.

The basic dream of many Colombians is to have a secure nation, without exclusions, with equity, and without hatred.

And remember that the danger which is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of.

The message has become clearer to the nation about AIDS. People used to think they could catch it all kinds of ways, but we now know that it is absolutely passed through bodily fluids.

It used to be said that by a certain age a man had the face that he deserved. Nowadays, he has the face he can afford.

Take away the In God We Trust, tell me what the hell is wrong with us.

Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life.

There is no greater magnificence than to defeat oneself. That is the magnificence.