There is but one bond of peace that is both permanent and enriching: The increasing knowledge of the world in which experiment occurs.

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?

I was always an odd child, though I had no idea what odd was, really.

The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.

Only through suffering do we learn

What quantum physics teaches us is that everything we thought was physical is not physical.

There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their professional craft

At the end of the day, I choose something that makes my heart beat, that I can relate to, that's very complex, or human.

Certain things you have to stumble on to. They can't be preprogrammed.

The law is where reality goes to die.

I'm just a good Catholic boy - I do naughty things and feel guilty about them.

The message coming back at all of us is: live without closure.