There is no bad day that can’t be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple.

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.

This was not a love story that ended in tragedy.This was a tragedy that ended in a love story.

Absence of problems   does not lead to happiness.     Dealing with them does.

If the path you are walking today won't lead you to your desired destination, then you are STROLLING

For me it is sufficient to have a corner by my hearth a book and a friend and a nap undisturbed by creditors or grief.

I never reflect or convey that which I have not experienced myself.

There are days where I've lost weight and I feel bigger or fatter or uglier and I want to just hibernate. I'll find every excuse not to exercise. I hate it.

I am not sure just what the unpardonable sin is, but I believe it is a disposition to evade the payment of small bills.

Conscious people always have a choice of whether to try to modify the actions of people around them or to change their response to the incoming stimuli.

Greenmail, in case you're wondering, is when a company pays a raider a premium for his holdings-if he'll go away. What I think it really is is blackmail in a pin-striped suit.

Connection exists. There is immanence and transcendence, and everything beyond and in between. My tradition calls this connection God Herself.