...we are entitled to make almost any reasonable assumption, but should resist making conclusions until evidence requires that we do so.

Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless.

Sometimes things which at the moment may be perceived as obstacles-and actually be obstacles, difficulties, or drawbacks-can in the long run result in some good end which would not have occurred if it had not been for the obstacle.

The problem is that once the untrained mind has made a formal commitment to a religious philosophy - and it does not matter whether that philosophy is generally reasonable and high-minded or utterly bizarre and irrational

There are few pages of history which do not demonstrate that public prayer and ritual never inoculated people against mass-madness and cruelty. What is needed is emphasis on morality and manners.

Nothing is better than the unintended humor of reality.

Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.