“I have been told that one of the reasons the astronomers of the world cooperate is the fact that there is no one nation from which the entire sphere of the sky can be seen.”

Too often sinister threats to the bill of rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak, of anti-communism.

An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.

The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us.

Perhaps there is in that fact a parable for national statesmen, whose political horizons are all too often limited by national horizons.

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…

Man is a strange animal, he doesn’t like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.

An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.

A wise man does not try to hurry history.

[I]t is difficult to picture the great Creator conceiving of a program of one creature (which He has made) using another living creature for purposes of experimentation.

Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?

Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.

A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.

If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.

I think always as an actor. I go in knowing how I’m going to play it. That’s about it.

The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.

A violent scene is art, as much as a sex scene is art. For me, all the scenes were a challenge.

There can be no centre in infinity.

As I see it every day you do one of two things

We must not, in opening our schools to everyone

We all make mistakes, but the people who thrive from their mistakes are the successful ones.