A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ... A great society is simply a big and complicated urban society.

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?

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.

I'd start to explain with the outward sheepish and inner pride of the nerd.

My first favorite band that made music important to me was the Beatles. I was a little kid. I didn't know who was singing what song or who wrote what song.

Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, yet she hurries back, And will burst through your foolish contempt, triumphant.

I am deeply a part of the problem for which Christ died.

Kaizen means ongoing improvement involving everybody, without spending much money.

Time never runs backward when I need it to. Not for me, and not for anyone else.

I’ve already lived through the worst time of my life. So I know that whatever happens to me from now on, nothing will ever be as bad as it was back then. That makes me happy.

All the spaces between my mind and the mind of God are full of truths waiting to be crystallized into laws for the government of the masses.

Waste equals food, whether it's food for the earth, or for a closed industrial cycle. We manufacture products that go from cradle to grave. We want to manufacture them from cradle to cradle.