There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.

No mariner ever enters upon a more uncharted sea than does the average human being born in the 20th century. Our ancestors know their way from birth through eternity; we are puzzled about the day after tomorrow.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil.

While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right important.

The man who raises new issues has always been distasteful to politicians. He musses up what had been so tidily arranged.

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.