Only the very rarest of princes can endure even a little criticism, and few of them can put up with even a pause in the adulation.

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?

To Have An Attitude Of Thanksgiving To God Is To Bring Health For Your Spirit, Soul And Body

Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.

I'm in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.

I don't know where everything is going, but I'm pretty confident that people like books - the objects. So I'm going to go on that -they're not going to disappear.

We should realize that the average family in America spends five minutes a week on politics.

I don't really have a certain format that I go by.

If you want me to believe in your redeemer, you are going to have to look a lot more redeemed.

Farewell's a bitter word to say.

Look, I think you should promote the game, but I think you should make it what it ought to be. Not some kind of a side-show.

Roman matrons used to say to their sons: 'Come back with your shield or on it.' Later on, this custom declined. So did Rome... (but not before it created an Empire that changed the world -EM).