Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising.

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.

In relationships, always strive to give more than you take -- that's how you make a bigger impact.

The big miracle you await will likely first appear in a small encounter or chance event. So always be aware and open, you never know what today will bring.

There is no private domain of a person's life that is not political, and there is no political issue that is not ultimately personal.

Just follow me and run like your life depends on it. Because it does.

It was easier to break promises when they weren't voiced.

I am a Christian and a Hindu and a Muslim and a Jew.

There is a difference between art and life and that difference is readability.

There is no truer saying than "Revenge is a dish best eaten cold." It is so much sweeter for the waiting, and my only regret is that I cannot broadcast my triumph to the world.

If my good friend Dr. Gasparri says a curse word against my mother, he can expect a punch. It's normal. It's normal.

... each with its own beauty, and each with a story to tell.