Thanks to words we have been able to rise above the brutes and thanks to words we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

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.

Sun shines above making diamonds of lightTink-tinkling, tap dancing and bright.

To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek.

[The Barefoot College is] the only college where the teacher is the learner and the learner is the teacher.

There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.

Every country has its own diplomacy. Being part of Europe doesn't mean giving up one's independence or no longer being able to take the initiative.

The crazy thing about it is she'd take him back, but the fool in him that walked out is the fool who just won't ask.

At Pixar, after every movie we have postmortum meetings where we discuss what worked and what didn't work.

Our mission is to go after Al Qaeda, not the Taliban. Right now, they are in Pakistan, not Afghanistan. We should go after them wherever they are.

Confidence is everything in this business.

You never quite know what the change is until, one day, you wake up and go, "Wow, I'm reacting to things differently and I feel differently."