Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

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.

Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.

Destiny is like a book. It needs manufacturing, the pulp process, the glue fixed tightly--and it requires a binding, to hold it together, lest it fall apart.

Your glass seems like it will always be half full even it falls down and shatters to pieces

My goal in the beginning was to buy my mother a house. Now I realize, okay, if I really focus and become a key player in business, then I can build an empire.

Students are rewarded for memorization, not imagination or resourcefulness.

Leave the woodpile higher than you found it.

England manufactures most of the world's airline food, as well as all the food you ever ate in your junior-high-school cafeteria.

I think the solo playing, the decision to start playing solo, came out of having discovered what lay behind the doors that that technique opened for me.

We impose order and narrative on everything in order to understand it. Otherwise, there's nothing but chaos.

In the poor we meet Jesus in his most distressing disguises.