Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.

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.

There comes a time in our life when we make ourselves a prisoner

We live as if we know how everything will turn out. I certainly lived that way. But we don't know anything. Really, we don't.

Genuine harmony must come from the heart. It cannot come from the barrel of a gun.

Having your fiscal house in order and having a more manageable macro-economic future is going to be very useful in creating growth.

All the conscious decisions that I have taken in my life have never borne fruit. Not even come close! So, I am just very happy not planning.

What will matter is not your success but your significance.

If a musician is making a mediocre, self-indulgent body of work, they have to know that, for the most part, people aren't going to be interested.

When it comes to paying contractors, the sky is the limit; when it comes to financing the basic functions of the state, the coffers are empty.

You get what you concentrate upon. There is no other main rule.

We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men.