In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.

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?

We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.

If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.

Life is figure out what you hope for, live inside that hope, but live right in it, under its roof

The door that nobody else will go in at seems always to swing open widely for me.

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

Come, follow me, and leave the world to its babblings.

Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.

Nonviolence to be worth anything has to work in the face of hostile forces.

Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.

I've done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.