Faith may be relied upon to produce sustained action and more rarely sustained contemplation.

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.

Husbands are always angry, that's their nature.And the nature of us women, is not to pay a blind bit of notice.

Chana knows, I wondered sometimes how I raised that child without strangling her. By age six, [Jasnah] was pointing out my logical fallacies as I tried to get her to go to bed on time.

Globalization doesn't have to be a bad thing as long as government provides us all with the tools to cope in a changing world.

With growing experience, all skillful commanders sought to profit by the power of the defensive, even when on the offensive.

One thing the military does far better than business is train its own leaders. I can't go to IBM and hire a battalion commander. They don't have any.

Skiers view snowboarders as a menace; snowboarders view skiers as Elmer Fudd.

If we spend our days waiting for fabulous roses we could miss the beauty and wonder of the tiny forget-me-nots that are all around us.

Every star has been set in the sky. We mistakenly think they were put there for us.

If it makes you feel beautiful...do it!

I discovered that I never really used Helvetica but I like to look at it. I like the VW beetle, too, although I've never driven one.