People travel for the same reason as they collect works of art: because the best people do it.

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.

And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and know that his choice has made a difference...

The audience wants to be attracted not by the critics, but by a great story. You must deliver to the audience emotion - and when I say emotion, I mean suspense, drama, love.

All things that are truly great are at first thought impossible.

His place was always set at the table, in case he rturned from the dead without warning .

Now was not a good time, but we didn't often get to chose the time to repay our debts.

When you absolutely throw yourself into your activity, your energy will only grow.

The strength of man sinks in the hour of trial; but there doth live a Power that to the battle girdeth the weak.

Detroit, the heart of the country... I grew up on 10 Mile, 2 miles better than 8 Mile.

Gaily! gaily! close our ranks! Arm! Advance! Hope of France! Gaily! gaily! closed our ranks! Onward! Onward! Gauls and Franks!

When people wear you out, spend some time in isolation with Allah and your relationship with Him will improve as well as with the people.