We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

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 vampire community has enough problems. We don't need to add petty backbiting to it.

The fundamental problem with the immigration system in our country is that it serves the needs of wealthy donors, political activists and powerful, powerful politicians. It's all you can do.

We get an apartment together, and after a whirlwind courtship you marry my sister and honeymoon in Vegas.

All my life I've been pleasin' everyone but me, waking up in someone else's dream.

Only sound common sense, respectable fellow that he is, in the homely realm of his own four walls, has very wonderful adventures directly he ventures out into the wide world of research.

When anybody laughs, he has no mind, no thought, no problem, no suffering.

Prayer is especially crucial when you come to a place in your study where you are stuck and confused.

I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.

You would think that Halloweens tomorrow because of their attempt to scare the American public.

Deep down, I'm a Texas girl looking for that big romance every girl dreams about. Biologically, I look forward to being a cornerstone of a family. I'll be in my glory when I have a child on my knee.