In a place where everybody thinks alike, nobody thinks very much.

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?

All the room darkened and my heart again sank

I believe that forgiveness is a processes. You might be able to release some offenses right away, but some offenses hurt deeper. You have to choose to let go and let God.

They chose to regard it as a miraculous preservation.

Isn’t it amazing how much good people can do for each other when you give them the opportunity to help?

The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.

An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.

The great majority of those who speak of perfectibility as a dream, do so because they feel that it is one which would afford them no pleasure if it were realized.

Any school would gain, if the students began the day with meditation, cleared their heads and got themselves centered.

The truth of the matter is President Trump brought together the Republican Party and the conservative movement.

There is a beginning. There is no beginning of that beginning ... There is something. There is nothing.