In the world of ideas everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled.

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.

But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.

I'm not good at small talk; I'm not good at big talk; and medium talk just doesn't come up.

God's part is to put forth power; our part is to put forth faith.

Many peo­ple know the price of every­thing and the value of noth­ing

Prayer opens our lives for God so his will can be done in and through us, because in true prayer we habitually put ourselves into the attitude of willingness to do whatever God wills.

It seems like there are always gatekeepers. People between you and the people who are moved by your work. They often make a beautiful thing creepy.

Everyday I see a little more of my father in me.

If we cant face our losses, we cant be present either fully to everything that is. When people have cut off or not made peace with some part of themselves, they miss out on other aspects of life.

True modesty and true pride are much the same thing: both consist in setting a just value on ourselves - neither more nor less.

The Bible is the authoritative Word of God and contains all truth.