To keep a faith pure, man had better retire to a monastery.

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?

A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom.

All events/actions create a potential energy that rotate around the doer until releases or neutralized. (From Circles of Reasoning book)

I felt like I belonged to an ancient tradition of all young people given this same task of finding their own ways through to the futures they wanted for themselves.

One of the cardinal sins in our country is profanity -- the taking of the name of the Lord in vain.

By the choices we make, by the attitudes we exhibit, we are influencing lives every day in positive or negative ways.

There is nothing more mysterious about the concept human nature than about the concept bee or chicken nature, at least for those who regard humans as creatures in the biological world.

I'm certainly not a trained singer. I'm just kind of following a feeling.

If you want milk, don't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in the hope that a cow will back up to you.

If you don't talk to your customers, how will you know how to talk to your customers?