What wonder, then, if human beings in their search for the divine have generally preferred to look within!

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.

When we feel conflicted about a particular decision or action, our bodies often hold the answer—if we take the time to stop and tune in.

It is so beautiful but home is home, and home is best.

The desire to do something because you find it deeply satisfying and personally challenging inspires the highest levels of creativity, whetherit's in the arts, sciences, or business.

Life is hollow without health and freedom. To seek one while ignoring the other is folly.

Instead of doing more badly, government should focus on doing less well.

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn't have the recognition that I have now.

Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.

I wouldn't say I was part of an anti-war campaign.

Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady.

Memory, that library of the soul from which I will draw knowledge and experience for the rest of my life.