The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

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 Bible, Quran or Veda can give you religion.

The name given to that one dramatic moment in an epidemic when everything can change all at once is the Tipping Point.

I spent a lot of time in London when I was growing up and I've always picked up accents without even really meaning to. It used to get me into trouble as a child.

I don't like [Bashir] Assad at all. But Assad is killing ISIS. Russia is killing ISIS.

The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it.

When giving, praying, and fasting are practiced together in the life of a believer, it creates a type of threefold cord that is not easily broken.

This post-college world felt different from everything that had come before it.

Films about women and their concerns are seen as frivolous, limited and, most damaging of all, niche.

Here lies William Trollope, Who made these stones roll up; When death took his soul up, His body filled this hole up

So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown When judges have been babes; great floods have flown From simple sources, and great seas have dried When miracles have by the greatest been denied.