There is only one purpose to which a whole society can be directed by a deliberate plan. That purpose is war, and there is no other.

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?

Maybe all the events of the last few months had occured for just one reason - to bring Thad and me together. Perhaps our being here on the Titanic wasn't pre-destination, but rather, destiny.

Happy?" asked Aquilina, with dreadful look, and a smile full of pity and terror. "Ah, you do not know what it is to be condemned to a life of pleasure.

Rock and Roll is instant coffee.

Tragedy looks to me like man in love with his own defeat. Which is only a sloppy way of being in love with yourself.

I have no lucky charm. I am 100 percent superstition-free, and I take nothing for granted.

I'm very organized and tidy in my home life and I generally do something myself rather than farm it out to somebody else. I don't have an assistant or anything because I think I can do it myself.

There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.

Leadership is making happen what wouldn't happen anyway and this always entails working at the edge of what is acceptable

Generally I'm quite picky - I usually don't approach a person unless I think we have some sort of cohesive way of working together.

Now I've got the world swingin' from my nuts And damn it feels good to be a gangsta!