The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

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?

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Live like there’s no tomorrow and learn as if your life depends on it

It better to win by the power of love than by the power of might.

The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.

There was a French activist and writer, Simone de Beauvoir, who said, 'You are not born woman. You become one' ... Words I live by.

The decided to go exploring, be Indiana Jones they don't have a light they don't have a map you're a screwed with a capital S.

You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.

All I really need is my bed and my art around me.

The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.