Every ceiling when reached becomes a floor upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.

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.

Most of the modern human society has nearly lost the faculty of observing the internal mechanism.

...do you have someone you can stay with? Hell, stay with your mother. The Pentagon doesn’t have the security system she’s g

Being a public defender makes you incredibly paranoid - and I would say with reason - about law enforcement.

Fatherhood is the most amazing thing that could ever have happened in my life.

I do love to sing. Had I a longer set of thigh bones and a sweeter voice, I should have loved to be a performer.

When a stray animal crosses your path, it may be as close to God as you're going to get in this lifetime.

If the King loves music, it is well with the land.

There's always some promoter having an '80s night, saying, We'll supply the band. All you can drink.

The things that unite us-America's past of which we are so proud, our hopes and aspirations for the future of the world and this much loved country-these things far outweigh what little divides us.

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.