A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

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.

If you want your dream to come true, you must do a lot of work.

Love brought its tail of pains, its long static beam of thorns, and we close our eyes so that nothing, so that no wound will separate us.

Convincing a leader of the value of front-line ideas alone is rarely enough for that person to overcome years of entrenched bad habits and to change his management style.

Being "brave" means doing or facing something frightening. ... Being "fearless" means being without fear.

Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right but our country right or wrong.

I can't get too offended when somebody parodies me.

Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not those fifty things I dabble in.

I wanted to look at how people deal with death. Why is Henry Kissinger not in jail and Charles Manson is?

I didn't hate being 60 as much as I had 50.

When faced with the choice, choose happy