It is in time of peace that the value of life is fixed. The test of war reveals it.

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.

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

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?

Children get used to the thought of their fate depends on powerful parents deciding everything in their life

There is no place so dangerous as a world without magic.

You just write about things that happen.

"Hello" is pseudoscience. The only smart way to read it is not to believe in it, not to trust it, or to put yourself in it and imagine what's out there that you haven't been told or seen.

I wanted to be a veterinarian, but slipped up when I hit organic chemistry.

When people tell you how young you look, they are also telling you how old you are.

I'm not a good lover, but at least I'm fast.

Not only do you have to trust the definite, you must also trust the uncertainty.

Om is the pointed piece and Dhyâna (meditation) is the friction.

I'm in charge of raising a young woman one day, to be a mother and hopefully a wife.