If you ignore what a man desires, and you deny the very source of his power.

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?

mia knew the weight that said nothing will ever be different from what it is now, that the world has lost all dimension and has turned to stone.

I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life and not too long to be downed by them.

Often your utterances and expressions of your face leak out the secrets of your hidden thoughts.

I didn’t want people to decide what I was going to wear and what I was going to look like and how I should behave.

Can you imagine how terrible it is when you've got everything and you're still desperately lonely? That is awful beyond words.

Communications is the number one major in America today. CNN had 25,000 applicants for five intern jobs this summer.

Don't do it quickly, but don't wait too long... If we wait too long to forgive, our rage settles in and claims squatter's rights to our souls.

I think empathy is a beautiful thing. I think that's the power of film though. We have one of the most powerful, one of the greatest communicative tools known to man.

Indian economy is suffering from policy paralysis and lack of optimism. I am confident that with right kind of decisions, we can once again generate hope and confidence and turnaround our economy.

[Orthodox] are brothers, but I must respect them.