The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him 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?

I don't believe everything "is meant to be." I believe God wants to direct our steps, but our free will makes for a lot of detours.

Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something, and it is only such love that can know freedom.

If there is a ‘this world, ’ there must be a ‘that world!’ There must be another world!

Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.

I have but one life to give to adventure.

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

A lot of movies will deliver on the promotion but when you go see them, everything you laughed at was in the trailer.

It's time to wipe the slate clean, recriminalize gambling, just like we did in this country 100 years ago

The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid

We cannot start over, but we can begin now, and make a new beginning