He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.

When all think alike, then no one is thinking

The press does not tell us what to think, it tells us what to think about.

The news and the truth are not the same thing.

The present crisis of Western democracy is a crisis in journalism.

To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.

It is often very illuminating...to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion?

All achievement should be measured in human happiness.

I call dealing with your calendar the “calendar boogie” because you seriously have to dance around to pull it alltogether.

Alice! You know I love you like a sister!""Words." she growled.

wait until god call u, but don't wait forone's helping hand because god given utwo hands

My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.

In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Mozart symphony, or any other great work of art.

Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge... At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.

It's one thing to be religious, but it's another thing to make religion your policy.

It's funny to see the people connect with Fast & Furious the way they do. I had no clue, I didn't get it. And now, more I get it and I see it.

The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.

I am not ambitious to appear a man of letters: I could be content the world should think I had scarce looked upon any other book than that of nature.