To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.

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.

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?

All achievement should be measured in human happiness.

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

...You haven't I suppose ever mixed with politicians at close quarters. They're awful...their stupidity is inhuman.

It didn’t take much to turn a man solitary-being the new guy too often, being controversial now and then, a couple of unsuccessful attempts at a lasting relationship with a woman…

I am my best work - a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines.

You now have the potential of 200 people deciding who ends up being elected president every single time.

Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.

Definitely gymnastics, because I was a gymnast for 11 years. That's my thing. My girlfriend Betty Okino was in the 1992 Olympics and won a bronze medal. She's a gymnast. So I'm a huge fan.

There are shantytowns in South Africa that are built better than Renaults!

Being a physicist, not a philosopher, I have devised an entirely new theory of consciousness, allowing one to numerically calculate the level of consciounsess of humans and even animals.

If you can't outplay the opposition, you must outnumber them.