No holiday is ever anything but a disappointment.

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.

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind

Reading a novel, War and Peace for example, is no Catnap. Because a novel is so long, reading one is like being married forever to somebody nobody knows or cares about.

...I conducted a number of experiments to get in touch with my future self. Here are my favorite

I'm a crier. You won't see me lashing out, but you will see me crying a lot.

I've grown up around cinema. Michael Kamen was a very, very close friend of mine, sort of my godfather. So I know how much work goes into it. You have to know what you're doing.

I am wise enough to know that there are some perils from which a man must flee.

I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read.

Once Iran gets nuclear weapons, they may believe that they are no longer vulnerable to either.

When people ask me that, I say I don't want to be remembered. It means I'm no longer around.

If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.