The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything

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.

When you do your works sincerely, you put wings to your works and then they will fly all over the world on their own!

Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort.

Three of the ten principles governing the City of Joy are (a) tell the truth, (b) stop waiting to be rescued, and (c) give away what you want the most.

It's like there was a fellow in every man that's done a-past the sanity or the insanity, that watches the sane and the insane doings of that man with the same horror and the same astonishment.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.

It hurts when you have to smile and you don't want to smile, but the best thing to do is to smile.

Because you are alive, everything is possible.

Pretty much any place that I haven't been is the next place I definitely I want to go.

Hollywood is like an empty wastebasket.

Dark clouds become heaven's flowers when kissed by light.