The best way to find things out is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off a question, it is like firing off a gun - bang it goes

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.

Grab tightly to the reigns of passion and ride into glory for without it life would be stagnant and you would be a spirit without cause.

Shalt thou give law to God, shalt thou disputeWith Him the points of liberty who madeThee what thou art and formed the pow'rs of Heav'nSuch as He pleased and circumscribed their being?

Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.

[My mom] worries about me going and taking drugs, whereas my dad advises me on what drugs to take and what ones not to take. So, they're very different.

If it's not a hit, switch.

It’s so important to create in your own voice, to hold onto what makes you unique, and have faith in your vision.

The hazards of the generalized prisoner's dilemma are removed by the match between the right and the good.

Write every day even if it is just a paragraph.

Politics for me is not Ambition but a Mission.

I got to be constantly reassured that somebody loves me.