You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases.

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.

Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itself.

I don’t know. She was a sweet girl. As sweet as they come. I don’t know why I didn’t love her. It’s something you can’t really control.

No intelligence system can predict what a government will do if it doesn't know itself.

Sarah Palin finally heard what happened in Japan and she's demanding that we invade 'Tsunami.'

Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.

Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.

Coincidence is a wonderful thing.

Never be arrogant or abrasive. Treat your opponent respectfully if they really and truly believe they are right.

Corneille is to Shakespeare as a clipped hedge is to a forest.

Wherever the enemy goes let our troops go also.