Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.

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.

Honor doesn’t revise according to company just as integrity doesn’t diminish due to circumstance.

Great mentors don't solve your problems, they guide you to make your best decision and encourage you to take personal ownership of the next steps for success.

Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death

One will never reach distant shores, if he chooses to remain upon the dock, In fear his little ship of dreams may be dashed against the rocks.

I suspected there would be a good-size crowd once the word got out about my hanging.

I always tell people you can take the thugest thug in the world, and if you put a suit on him, he'll act different, trust me.

Thou shalt not steal the shekels of thine audience with a play which doth not let them know what the hell goeth on.

Maybe God's goal wasn't for me to raise a good rule-following child. Instead, His goal was for me to raise a God-following adult.

I know not which I prefer the look of—those who attack us or that which defends us!

...it was more like bleeding than crying.