Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.

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?

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Sometimes my husband will surprise me with flowers for no reason. Unexpected romantic gestures are very important and keep things exciting.

One of the greatest things I've learned, as an actor, was how to talk to actors.

Dwell not on the faults and shortcomings of others; instead, seek clarity about your own.

Education is the key to opportunity. It's a ticket out of poverty.

Conventions are often more cruel than the law.

Everything was quiet, a strange sort of quiet that felt like an unfinished sentence.

I think that that integrity is something that is important to voters.

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Amid the most mercenary ages it is but a secondary sort of admiration that is bestowed upon magnificence.