Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool of silence.

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 dead to the grave, the living to the loaf.

Not your appearance, but your humility and power of love define your beauty.

I'm not more than a musician that enjoys what he does and a Colombian that dreams and fights for peace in his country.

We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.

You cannot brighten another's path without lighting your own.

All progress comes from the creative minority.

I was pretty quiet as a child. I kind of hung out with my family and listened to music and sh*t. I wasn't too outgoing at all.

...mediocre people find their way into positions of authority...because when it comes to even the most important positions, our selection decisions are a good deal less rational than we think.

Your most effective ministry will come out of your deepest hurts.

The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist.