The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.

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.

Sometimes you take all my words away from me.

The fastest way to end an argument with your wife is to admit she’s right.

I didn't really understand community until I moved to New Orleans.

Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.

Over all, many of society's values are a cesspool.

Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.

I gotta make a move, I gotta do this now, If they don't know your dreams, they can't shoot 'em down.

If you repeat yourself, then I think you're in danger of losing that fan base, because if you're not interesting yourselves, you're not interesting your audience.

The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.

Regrets don't help anything.