The first principle of a civilized state is that power is legitimate only when it is under contract.

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 moment I saw her, a part of me walked out of my body and wrapped itself around her. And there it still remains.

I felt how much better and more dignified it was for me to show off the finer side of my soul than of my body.

Beware of relying solely on a resume to hire

I want to be somebody, a person, first that people remember, but also, I want music that I release to still be around. I don't want it to just be cool for a second and be gone.

I'm not a big slasher film fan.

Twitter and Facebook and all of this stuff is, to me, I mean it's, for some reason - I'm probably not the youngest person using it. But for some reason, it works very well. I'm setting records.

I don't want...to run away by myself... because no matter what...I'd rather be together with everyone.

I wear black all the time.

Some people suffer in silence louder than others.

You can't live entirely alone. You have to have some kind of a support system.