An ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality.

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.

God wants to use His Church to establish His Kingdom on the earth.

Smart people think. Brave people talk. Great people act.

The gift of life is present at every moment — even moments that seem insignificant or unpleasant.

It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.

Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the athletic ruling class.

In order to satisfy one human stomach, so many lives are taken away. We must promote vegetarianism. It is extremely important.

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.

I realize the answer is not to create wilderness and walk away.

The decent method you follow is better than the perfect method you quit.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.