Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.

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.

Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.

True honor does not crave recognition, as true wisdom craves not publicity. The great heroes and the great men of wisdom walk silently through the bypaths of mankind.

Whether science-and indeed civilization in general-can long survive depends upon psychology, that is to say, it depends upon what human beings desire.

It can be easy to love all beings from a distance; it can be a great challenge when we have to live with them.

How can you want to touch me after what I did?" "How can I ever not want to touch you?

A leader has to show the face his team needs to see.

I'm still not a very good white wine, but I'm drinkable - you could put me in a punch, anyway.

My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner.

I hope some day to meet God, because I want to thank Him for the flowers.

In lawn tennis mixed, the basic chivalry move is to pretend to serve less fiercely to the woman than to the man. This is particularly useful if your first service tends to be out in any case.