People who are tremendously concerned about their identification, their individuality, their self-expression, or their sense of humor, always seem to be missing the very things they pursue.

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?

The world would be a nicer place if everyone had the ability to love as unconditionally as a dog.

I'm a street photographer, but I'm interested in any ironic, whimsical images, and there's something very romantic about a circus.

I never see a forest that does not bear a mark or a sign of history.

Some things go too deep for words.

Never be passive. Victories happen when you take charge of a game. You can't win by playing not to lose".

As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.

New York is a great place to be fed in the arts. The arts in general are a large part of my life. The city was my postgraduate course.

One bad habit often spoils a dozen good ones.

If I am to care for people in hospital I really must know every aspect of their treatment and to understand their suffering.

My feeling is that a newspaper should serve its readers and it just seems to me that given what is going in the world, people are hungry for something.