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

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.

It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.

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.

Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?

Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.

It has a very mystic energy which informs you as an actor.

It is much easier to begin than to end.

I’m not gonna shoot anyone with the pellet gun… Not unless I have to!

This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.

I know too well the poison and the sting of things too sweet.

It is only when we have lost them that we fully appreciate our blessings.