Work is prayer. Work is also stink. Therefore stink is prayer.

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 individuals and communities do not govern self, they risk being ruled by external forces that care less about the well-being of the village.

Great readers (are) those who know early that there is never going to be time to read all there is to read, but do their darnedest anyway.

Living a Christian life is not equivalent to living a religious one

Reason, in the end, will win against unreason.

Happiness is the little moments of joy you give yourself every single day, living a life in con stant pursuit of happy and joyous moments.

The courage to speak must be matched by the wisdom to listen.

It's hard to get a great idea sometimes. When you get a good one and you have a good script, you want to keep shepherding it to make it happen.

A lot of the really great stuff fell between the tracks.

I have named myself an unofficial ambassador for Australia and I have the biggest mouth on Earth.