Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.

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?

That's my secret and my shame. I'm Nona Grey, war is in my veins, and the screams of my enemies are music to me.

The irrevocable events of our lives happen in seconds, sometimes fractions of seconds.

Artists are social sensors and transmitters of ideas

People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just.

You pick up some fans and a handful of haters along the way.

Here hyacinths of heavenly blue, shook their rich tresses to the morn.

Batistuta is very good at pulling off defenders

I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It's good for them.

I miss New York. I still love how people talk to you on the street - just assault you and tell you what they think of your jacket.

In the laboratory the gambits all test unfavorably, but the old rule wears well, that all gambits are sound over the board.