Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.

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?

There is always a great price to pay for irresponsibility.

It's the only dish I serve my craziness for color in.

I am recording my first CD in Spanish and preparing myself for the next stage of my career.

How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change

The wages of sin are an expensive infection.

My ambition from the very beginning was to make a good part for myself, something differently to what lately I've been doing.

Try to live without something digital - without digital code for about two hours, very hard to do if you're awake.

Any way to make a workout feel like playtime is great.

Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.

The more you inspire, the more people will inspire you.