The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.

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.

A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.

I'm right and wrong, moral and immoral, good and bad, a hero and a villain, and I've been just as capable of truth as I have been lies.

Political scientists and professors are the new clergy

Sustainable Life = Victory

So you have to accept facts as fact.

Female friendship... I think you have friendships that come and go, and then there are ones that the girl becomes a part of your bones.

Thus I set my printless feet O'er the cowslip's velvet head, That bends not as I tread.

The fight against drug trafficking is a wildfire that threatens to consume those fundamental rights of the individual deliberately enshrined in our Constitution.

Do not say to yourself, 'I am going to act this way tomorrow.' Just say to yourself - 'I am going to imagine myself acting this way NOW - for 30 minutes - today.'

You don't even wish for the success that I had, because you don't think it's attainable.