A man cannot sleep in his cradle: whatever is useful must in the nature of life become useless.

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?

my life was lived through falling rainso call on me if there be pain

Yeah, because you'll really be showing them, won't you. Talk about cutting up your wrists to spite your fate.

To believe a thing is not to make it true.

The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but him had fled The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead.

I once had a crush on one of my teachers. I wrote him a love letter and stuck it in a bag in his office. I didn’t write my name on it, but I’m sure he figured out it was me.

I think the internet is the greatest waste of time since masturbation was discovered.

Fidelity to meaning alone in translation is a kind of betrayal.

Dore Schary was then head of the studio and he wanted to change my name.

The natural formation of the country is the soldier's best ally

A home opener is always exciting, no matter if it's home or on the road.