No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.

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?

Curiosity is the intellectual need to answer questions and close open patterns. Story plays to this universal desire by doing the opposite, posing questions and opening situations.

It's one of those dumb days where nothing's really wrong but nothing's really right either and the sky can't even choose to be white or gray.

I believe in giving people a second chance.

If I could go back in time to change stuff? Oh yeah, there's a few movies I would not have done.

When people forget themselves, they usually do things others remember.

Recently I heard a 'wise guy' story that I had a party at my home for twenty-five men. It's an interesting story, but I don't know twenty-five men I'd want to invite ta a party.

Allow me to congratulate you on your very astute powers of observation.

I love that about the Beatles, that the music is still going on more than the haircut, you know.

But part of the job of economics is weeding out errors. That is much harder than making them, but also more fun.

That wasn't good, that wasn't sportsmanship. I was amazed he took that shot.