The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.

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?

The steady soul and the ego pretender / walk with their arms round each other's shoulders / through the mirage.

No one likes incomplete story, so does the God :-)

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

In your city faded off the brown, NINO. She insists she got more class, WE KNOW.

For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song.

Faction is to party what the superlative is to the positive. Party is a political evil, and faction is the worst of all parties.

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.

I never sort of thought of myself as a comedy writer, by nature.

I don't feel the need to prove myself to others, but to prove myself to myself

Having children is what a woman is born for, really.