You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers.

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?

Our bird of hope was being denied the altitude it sought, just free enough to fly dangerously close to the reality of the treetops.

True heartfelt gratitude offers moments of profound reflection, on the blessings which constantly fill our lives (KR, 1998)

They wanted her. They all loved her. And they wanted to keep her.

Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.

Serious work gets done ... in congenial surroundings, which tend to make you laugh.

I want to be a positive force in the world, I would like to make people happy.

Bring forth the raisins and the nuts- Tonight All-Hallows' Spectre struts Along the moonlit way.

The price of eternal vigilance is indifference.

I don't pay too much attention to the positive reviews or the negative reviews because if you believe one, you've gotta believe the other.

If you want to understand Jesus, you have to study the whole Bible. Christian duty is not defined solely by the words in red.