To serve the public interest is not the same as being a servant of public opinion.

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.

Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.

To silence criticism is to silence freedom.

I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.

The easiest rationalization for the refusal to seek the truth is the denial that truth exists.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

The difference between science and religion is that the former wishes to get rid of mysteries whereas the latter worships them.

Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probability.

In contrast to totalitarianism, democracy can face and live with the truth about itself.

Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.

Ask not what your country can do for you

I think we might’ve met in a past life. You know, one of those you pass and think, wow you’re kind of beautiful. Just one of those.

You will only rise to the level of your belief.

Shake those stars from your hair, pretty Moonchild. It's time to dance with the noonday sun!

The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.

Poetry is the purest form of insanity.

A boil on a man's neck is more important to him than 40 floods in India

I think success is being exactly who God called us to be and fighting to your death to live that out.

In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.

The United States is a violent military state. It's been involved in military action all over the place.