There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.

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?

On long haul flights I always drink loads and loads of water and eat light and healthy food.

The devil makes a great deal of the religion we see.

Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one.

To learn from our enemies is the best pathway to loving them: for it makes us grateful to them.

I always threw the ball in, because then if I got the ball back, I was the only player unmarked.

The final story, the final chapter of Western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles.

Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; reality always remains far apart from the ideal.

Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods.

Im not interested in fad songs.

The hard thing about death is that nothing ever changes. The hard thing about life is that nothing stays the same.