The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

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?

Why not give the ladder of success an honest brave long try?

She'd never been one to think in terms of years, anyway. A person was what they were, and many a man at forty was sixty in his ways and many another was twenty and would never grow past it.

Adam ate the apple and our teeth still ache.

Higher than "thou shalt" stands "I will" (the heroes), and higher than "I will" stands "I am" (the Greek gods).

These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try.

To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process.

After I found April Barrows, I felt I had found a soul mate. Her stuff is exactly what I was looking for.

I would hate to be on a plane every day.

Life favors those who are prepared