Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.

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.

beneath the pain of your fears, wild and ready, lives your truth, the essence of your singular beauty, hoping, waiting for you to set it free.

My generation of director has no illusions that we are going to be fed and cared for by subsidized theater in America.

Anytime you're the first to speak out against something, there's going to be a backlash.

If you have political reform in the Islamic world, the spiritual reform would follow.

I know a lot more old drunks than old doctors.

It's not just a matter of saying you have to have courage, because you learn courage.

She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present.

You can be happy, or you can be right. If you want to be part of a couple and win every argument, you're in trouble.

We are what our thoughts have made us

There is nothing wrong with a woman welcoming all men's advances as long as they are in cash