I have never been able to understand why pigeon-shooting at Hurlingham should be refined and polite while a rat-killing match in Whitechapel is low.

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.

I am unable to change myself, Can't adopt change so easily.So I just start see things differently

I wish the women's rights folks would be more sensible. I think women have a great deal to learn, before they are fit to vote.

A smile costs nothing in money, time, or effort but it is literally true that it can be of supreme importance in ones life.

Before we passionately desire a thing, we should examine the happiness of its possessor.

We, too, born to freedom, and believing in freedom, are willing to fight to maintain freedom. We, and all others who believe as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

It is hardship that makes clear who the "fighters" are.

TRUTH may hurt temporarily, but LIES leave marks permanently.

Given enough coffee I could rule the world

To me, writing is not a profession. You might as well call living a profession. Or having children. Anything you can't help doing.

I'm probably the only guy in hockey who can win a scoring title and everybody is saying I had a bad year. I don't worry about it.