It seems like topsy-turvyland to make reason serve the irrational. Yet that is just what it has always done, and ought always to do.

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?

Do what is right. Not what you like.

Don’t do business just for the money. Make it a hobby and the money will come automatically.

...think of the solution, not the problem. If your mind was filled only with thoughts of why you were going to lose, then you couldn't think of how to win.

I never regretted what I turned down.

The more that you expect, the less happy you will be-- because if the expectations are realized you won't be grateful

There are so many things that I would love to do. I'd love to do a drama. I just enjoy doing very different things.

I don't really like money - I like the things you can buy with money.

I'm amazed to find those countries are in Europe.

Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.

The good NCO has never been short in confidence, either to perform the mission or to inform the superior that he or she was interfering with traditional NCO business.