At any given moment life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time having a purpose tending in a certain direction.

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.

Aging is not our fault, but we certainly are guilty of feeling it.

As Christians, we are not to be people without feelings.

The objective is to do things well in London.

You have come to the shore. There are no instructions.

A marciful Providunce fashioned us holler O' purpose thet we might our principles swaller.

A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.

My activism has to do with my conscience; I cannot let certain things slide without doing something. My public speaking is part of an art form that is cultural.

There's two kinds of press that you get when you put out a TV show: The reviews, and the people that just decide what the reviews say.

Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.

We were put on this Earth as creatures of God to have dominion over the Earth, to use it wisely and steward it wisely, but for our benefit not for the Earth's benefit.