To his dog every man is Napoleon hence the constant popularity of dogs.

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 first casualty of war is casual wear.

What you need and what you want aren't the same things.

Acting is a reflex, a mechanism for development and survival. . . . It isn't 'second nature,' it is 'first nature.'

I wanted so much to forget the past, but it wouldn't go away, it hung around like an open wound that refused to scar over, an open window that no amount of muscle could shut.

God knows the mess we’re in when He calls us. His light shines greater through “cracked pots” than it does through those who have it all together.

The physician's ability to reassure the patient is a major factor in activating the body's own healing system.

The moment a man ceases to progress, to grow higher, wider and deeper, then his life becomes stagnant.

If you try to delight the undelightable, you've made yourself miserable for no reason.

I had a dozen years to act before starting a family then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value.

Jesus, deliver me from the spirit of witchcraft!