Liberties are not given, they are taken.

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 will not let triggers, flashbacks, nightmares control my emotions.I will not let those triedto destroy me win this war.I have awakened and I willfind peace with myself.

I walked to the bookcase and examined the storybooks inside. As a girl, I had dreamed of having stacks of books at my disposal--stories to get lost in, other worlds to live in when mine was so bleak.

Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a motivation to write the next book.

Let us keep a firm grip upon our money, for without it the whole assembly of virtues are but as blades of grass.

Some deny the existence of misery by pointing to the sun; he denies the existence of the sun by pointing to misery.

Some of the stuff about Yogi energy is really fascinating.

It is perfectly possible that a grandfather can have a more scientific mind than his grandchildren! Societies do not always go forward! Sometimes old generations are much luckier!

The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!

The king of comedy is dead. Richard Pryor was the king of comedy. The rest of them are the king of copycats.

I try to eat well, but I don't deny myself the foods I love. I just eat them in moderation.