The smashing of idols is in itself such a preoccupation that it is almost impossible for the iconoclast to look clearly into a future when there will not be many idols left to smash.

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?

What appears strange and complex becomes stranger and more complicated once you begin to investigate it. That's the true nature of the world.

A child falls many times in attempt to walk. But never quit trying and eventually, the child is able to walk.

You have a college degree? You can barely talk.

The greyhound that starts many hares kills none.

Silent pictures show us how we lived and what our attitudes were. And as an art form, they can be wonderfully entertaining and often inspirational.

You get a good review, and it’s like crack. You need another hit. And another. And another. I know authors are like Tinkerbell and generally need applause to survive, but it’s a slippery slope.

I spent a year in a 12-step program, really committed, because I could not believe what had happened - that I might have killed myself.

Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.

However important it is that love shall precede marriage, it is far more important that it shall continue after marriage.

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.