When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world.

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.

Yo Mama’s so ugly, her dentist treats her by mail order.

The sun, rising and setting in splendid colors, never grows tired of its admirers―much like a lady, aglow with grace, never grows tired of chivalrous acts or pretty flowers.

We take a last look out of the window at the night, and I send a silent wish to everyone out there for this kind of warmth.

Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.

Can't India dream of exporting teachers of high calibre? Can't we instil the desire in children to become great teachers?

Music is what you notice when it's no longer in your presence.

As an investor-entrepreneur, I’ve always tried to be contrarian, to go against the crowd, to identify opportunities in places where people are not looking.

Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority.

I always liked stories that carry on and have a different format from the normal music video.