Do I think I was put here on earth to be a journalist and to seek truth? No, I don't.

It's not necessary to tell all you know... You're not gonna change any one of them by talkin' right. They've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.

Harper Lee

Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere.

Rupert Murdoch

We slow the progress of science today for all sorts of ethical reasons. Biomedicine could advance much faster if we abolished our rules on human experimentation in clinical trials, as Nazi researchers did.

Paul Nitze

Stupidity is without anxiety.

Johann von Goethe

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.

Albert Einstein

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Don't use that foreign word ideals. We have that excellent native word lies.

Henrik Ibsen

I'm an actor. I love to act. That's my job. I'll leave the politicking to others.

Jimmy Smits

...I didn't want you flawless - I have a bare wall at home that's flawless - I wanted your character trapped in the amber of your skin...

John Geddes

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

Vittorio Alfieri

It is not something I must do but something I want to do

James Fixx

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Warren Earl Burger, Majority opi