Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.

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?

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Goodness is sparked by a caution for the sake of what is good, not a fear of what is bad.

A man of fifty looks as old as Santa Claus to a girl of twenty.

History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.

The more centralized the power, the less compromises need to be made in architecture.

Like Lincoln said: "If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong," and I feel the same way about the leftist dismantling of the West. If that's not wrong, then nothing is wrong.

I had stopped making figures, and then I began making images of animals in nature, which was a way to introduce the figure.

Self-sacrifice of one innocent man is a million times more potent than the sacrifice of a million men who die in the act of killing others.

I do what feels natural, but I can't say I haven't thought about it.

The pathway to educational excellence lies within each school.