War is often described as a law of nature-this is not true: Among the lower animals, war is unknown.

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.

Failure makes Success more appreciable

Every sacrifice is another colour of your Rainbow!

It is not what we choose that is important

After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.

I want to be good at what I do, obviously, and to do that I need to keep my head straight.

Speed, the fundamental condition of the activities of our day is the power of photography, indeed the modern art of today, the art of the split second.

Having a movie that lasts and makes your image imprinted into the history of cinema, it's very positive.

“Secretary of State Clinton dared Iran on Monday to let her hold a town-hall meeting in Tehran.” That’s telling ’em. If the ayatollahs had a sense of humor, they’d call her bluff.

I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.

I was glad to be with her, but it also kind of hurt, and it hurt when I wasn't with her, too.