Industrialization is the systemic exploitation of wasting assets. In all too many cases, the thing we call progress is merely an acceleration in the rate of that exploitation.

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.

Someone may have a broken heart or someone may have a broken ego. Such people will have to suffer tremendously because of that.

The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything

The central theme of the book is that prayer is best understood as a long, sometimes perilous, epic journey that eventually leads to triumph.

I'm possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot.

Every habit and faculty is preserved and increased by correspondent actions, as the habit of walking, by walking; of running, by running.

I want to privilege the moment.

You might recognize me, I'm the fourth guy from the left on the evolutionary chart.

I'm just more into playing golf. It's a great thing.

This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.

That's the biggest rule in Hollywood: Don't spend your own money.