The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.

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.

Relationships are like gardening. If you don't water the plants, they die.

If the sky had no tears, the world would have no rainbows.

I sighed. "Would it be too much to ask that Asgard be peaceful? Made up of big, fluffy clouds, serenity, and lots of hot yoga?

I'm learning a lot about how to be one of the 'good' actors. You'd hope that it's natural to be a good person, and kind, but I'm learning how to deal with long, sometimes boring days.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

My soul is not my own any more. I cannot live like I want to. I am going to give up films.

Make Money a CENTRAL priority. This has nothing to do with greed and consumption and everything to do with life force and power.

Good journalism is good business practice; good business supports great journalism.

He also knows that certain moments repeat themselves.

You read the past in some old faces.