Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

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.

Love forces, at last, this humility: you cannot love if you cannot be loved, you cannot see if you cannot be seen.

I don’t mind my friends calling me 'Thornes, ' but the fact of people calling me 'Prickly Thornes' draws the line.

Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.

I hope - I'm a democrat. I'm a democratically elected politician from the Netherlands representing one of the major parties in Holland - I hope that I will be able to talk and to discuss with people.

What was my great sin? To have revealed the private property of the bank - well if this is being a criminal, then maybe I'm a great criminal.

After seeing 'Big,' I wanted an elevator that opened directly into my apartment, just like Tom Hanks did.

Progress can be slow and gradual. Continue putting in effort with patience, enthusiasm and faith.

I believe that when you provide information to people, they become less fearful and they will engage more in their democracy if they are empowered with information.

Wherever you go, there are three icons that everyone knows: Jesus Christ, Pele and Coca-Cola.

Sweetheart, do not love too long: I loved long and long, And grew to be out of fashion Like an old song.