Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.

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?

Boxing has kept me off the streets, stops me smoking and drinking and gives me something to do.

As soon as I came to believe there was a God, I understood that I could not do otherwise than live only for him.

People always underestimate the impact of technology. To give you an example: In the 1970s the frontier for offshore development was 200 meters, today it is 4,000 meters.

The worldview of the Left is a battle between rich and poor

If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys.

Maybe we're born lost, born to persevere

I want to be one of the best players in the game.

To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.

Hollywood life is never true. Ever.

Laugh my friend, for laughter ignites a fire within the pit of your belly and awakens your being.