A felicidade nunca é graciosa.Happiness is never gracious.

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.

You are entitled to your opinion but you are not entitled to dictate mine.

The more you make your thoughts and beliefs into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself.

Happiness is a choice, because being so much blessed doesn't make you happy, contentment does.

Social Security is meant to be - to make sure that no one who's worked hard, and played by the rules, and paid into the system grows old in poverty in America.

I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.

The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.

It was my first time in Kansas City. In about two or three days I had a gig at a place called The Monroe Inn.

I've had a baby. I've had an abortion.

From the point of view of the meditative traditions the entire society is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

I did my undergraduate work at the University of California when it was still affordable. But tuition keeps on rising.