Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is – it is her shadow.

For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive...

Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers’ incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are...

Civilization is hideously fragile and there’s not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.

For months it seemed that a revolution was certain. But instead, slavery seems more likely now. The working class no longer has the physical resistance for a revolution, and the Entente is too strong, and...

I began learning the sportswriting business very early in life.

But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun.

Few learn golf in a lifetime.

The way to write is well, and how is your own business.

Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.

What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don’t judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information...

We’re not paying attention to the fact that Hillary Clinton is running in 2006. Everyone is looking to her for the future. It’s the same with anybody else who’s positioning themselves.

Being attractive and being credible can and do go together.

I don’t know of anybody’s political bias at CBS News. We try very hard to get any opinion that we have out of our stories, and most of our stories are balanced.

Whomever you’re going to interview, you have to be interested in what it is you want to know from them. You have to be interested in the subject.

Absolute space, that is to say, the mark to which it would be necessary to refer the earth to know whether it really moves, has no objective existence.

Saying the Washington Post is just a newspaper is like saying Rasputin was just a country priest.

People here don’t identify themselves by their sports team.

The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.

I found out about the Spanish war because I was in Germany when it began.

Look, obviously that was – created quite a firestorm, but Newsweek editors have made clear that this was a situation where, you know, a solid, well-placed source provided some information.

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some other approach.

That said, ID does not qualify as science because it gives us nothing to test or measure. Science requires replicable tests involving measurable variables.

Dog – a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world’s worship.

COMPROMISE, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his...

This opinion, however, is held by most, that the devil was an angel, and that, having become an apostate, he induced as many of the angels as possible to fall away with himself, and these...

In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.

I enjoy being around people who disagree with me; and I enjoy being in non-political contexts and activities.

In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.

Sugar Ray and talked about doing some articles together or writing a book together but dealing with Sugar Ray was a lot like fighting him. He would fake you in and then he’d drop you.

I worked to save up enough money to pay off my bills and have enough money to live for a little while, and then I moved to Paris.

One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it’s very complex, it’s very profound.

I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.

Diversity has been written into the DNA of American life; any institution that lacks a rainbow array has come to seem diminished, if not diseased.

Don’t count out other amazing programming like Frontline. You will still find more hours of in-depth news programming, investigative journalism and analysis on PBS than on any other outlet.

Michael Moore became an industry hero and the most visible symbol of the Hollywood left.

I’m proud of being Hispanic.

People of sense will not take its absurd triviality as anything but helpful in contributing to the proof of the survival of personal identity.

Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that’s not working. Just pare it down until it’s a beautiful thing you can hand in, probably late, to your editor.

The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law.

Driving down Laurel Canon, which is a major street that goes between the Santa Monica Mountains to the Hollywood Strip, was neat.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

A loafer always has the correct time.

Bill Clinton’s foreign policy experience stems mainly from having breakfast at the International House of Pancakes.

If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on...

Dad was also a deeply, unabashedly religious man. But he never made the fatal mistake of so many politicians-wearing his faith on his sleeve to gain political advantage.

The Democratic chairman doesn’t need to be a household name. Most people didn’t know who Ron Brown was when he was chairman of the Democratic Party, but he put the party in a position where...

We live in an anaesthetized society.

The powder is mixed with water and tastes exactly like powder mixed with water.