We know that it is possible to harness desire to many interests, that evil is one form of a desire, and not the nature of it.

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?

Never fire a laser at a mirror.

I wrote a screenplay for a 'Sweet Valley High' adaptation, and it's really amazing to me how many women who are my age have responded to the idea and are excited about the movie.

Unhappy business men, I am convinced, would increase their happiness more by walking six miles every day than by any conceivable change of philosophy.

Black power got to moving so fast that we miscalculated the fallout. I certainly have to take some of the responsibility of that; but there was no way we anticipated the response.

I feel like there's always something to prove.

I enjoy being the messenger for God in terms of letting people know about HIV and AIDS.

The inner journey is as individual as our thumbprint. We need to guide others on their way and never impose our way upon them.

We are in a position, as musicians, to touch the souls of those who listen.

It's great that the story [Allied] is set in the '40s because the '40s feel to it is completely appropriate.

Cyberspace is the human transition into a mathematical super space where we as a collectivity become optionally a single point of view.