The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.

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 only way to efficiently battle evil is to copy enough to know how to counter each argument, yet not enough to believe all the bullshit.

Teenagers can spot hypocrisy a mile away and here I was telling them how to cope when they witnessed the shambles of my own life and how I was living.

I’ve read Hamlet, I know men suffer.

Show me a person who has never made a mistake and Ell show you somebody who has never achieved much.

A single son endowed with good qualities is far better than a hundred devoid of them.

I'm not on a mission. I'm not a paragon of health for anybody. I'm not going to run a marathon or model for 'Men's Health' or go on bike rides with Lance Armstrong. I'm not. Trust me.

I think when people get comfortable is when they fall off.

I really did not think much about the size of the transfer fee when I left Barcelona because it was all down to market forces, not me.

But you're so helpless sometimes. It's like watching a kitten with its head trapped in a Kleenex box.