There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self.

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.

Om meditation makes the mind spacious. It gives the freedom for focus and divergent thinking. Divergent thinking is the center of human creativity.

Welcome to the future, she thought, surveying all this wordage and tat. All our tragedies and triumphs, our lives and deaths, our shames and joys are just stuffing for your emptiness.

From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.

For a human being, sadness is as powerful as terror. Sadness makes a warrior shed tears of blood.

I really like action. I really liked running around. I loved being really physical. I'm a big believer in it's okay if this job is really about entertaining people.

May my life be like a great hospitable tree, and may weary wanderers find in me a rest.

Purity is the fruit of prayer.

Your home should tell the story of who you are.

I'd like to be able to go on holiday and not to have to hold my belly in for two whole weeks.

One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspiration.