We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look.

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.

People are going to say what they want to say and think what they want to think, and I can't change their minds.

The sky is a meadow of wildstar flowers.

Who gives you pain? Your anger, pride, illusion and greed. Where is the fault of the nature in all this?

To me, if you are in the same building with Peter Sellers or John Cleese, or any of those guys and holding your own making other people laugh, that's a compliment.

We have believing in this innocent feeling of nothing will ever happen to us, because all catastrophes always broad and happening to anyone else.

When you feel homesick,’ he said, ‘just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go.

Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.

Such words as "society" and "community" are likely to be misleading, for they have a tendency to make us think there is a single thing corresponding to the single word.

You realize who you're in love with is fading fast. You don't know what to do, but in that period time moves so slowly.

If you give me a short shot I will attack you. I'm not a baseliner who rallies. I try to get the point over with.