The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.

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.

If you shake a tree, fruit must fall, no matter how reluctant it is.

Most people really don’t know what they want

We need money not only for meeting our own needs, but also for fulfilling God’s plans.

If you have a warm and caring heart, you're loved ones will ensure you never depart. For long after you've turned that final page you'll still be right there on center stage.

My mom had Julia Child and 'The Fannie Farmer Cookbook' on top of the refrigerator, and she had a small repertoire of French dishes.

Reader, I literally married him.

The question before the advanced nations is not whether they can afford to help the developing nations, but whether they can afford not to do so.

The less someone knows about me, the better, because my intention is to play a variety of characters.

Let us be clear about one thing: The tea party movement is not seeking a junior partnership with the Republican Party, but a hostile takeover of it.

When two peoples share a common passion: they are capable of empathising with each other's misery.