Writers write to influence their readers their preachers their auditors but always at bottom to be more themselves.

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.

All are one

Revelation is God's way of telling humanity that he is afraid of their possibility

I'm a huge fan of David Hockney. I love the way he keeps reinventing himself.

If Christ be anything, He must be everything.

When we encounter suffering, it is important to respond w/ compassion rather than to question the politics of those we help.

Forgiveness is taking seriously the awfulness of what has happened when you are treated unfairly. Forgiveness is not pretending that things are other than the way they are.

Any friend of fossil is a friend of mine... We’ve got to do everything we can to get people out of their automobiles and into mass transit.

Divisions are imaginary lines drawn by small minds.

It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.

I actually credit Twitter with fine-tuning some joke-writing skills. I still feel like I'm working at it.