“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.”

“Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.”

“The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.”

“There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.”

“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.”