"Journalism, like democracy, is not something that is achieved. It is a work in progress, and not every day is as good as the last."

“Palestine must be built up without violating the legitimate interests of the Arabs.. Palestine is not Rhodesia... 600,0000 Arabs live there, who before the sense of justice of the world have exactly the same rights to their homes as we have to our National Home.”

“Most of the people who have grabbed hold of climate change and greenhouse gases, pollution, oil dependency - they have another motive, and their motive is to attain the appearance of virtue without having actually done anything virtuous.”

“If you wish to study men you must not neglect to mix with the society of children.”

Source : Jesse Torrey (1819). “The Moral Instructor, and Guide to Virtue and Happiness: Being a Compendium of Moral Science, in Four Parts ... : with an Appendix Containing Directions for the Institution of Free Public Libraries, and Reading Societies : Designed for the Use of Families, and the Highest Classes in Common Schools and Academies”, p.134

“It is not an easy thing for a parent of today to bear always in mind that every child of his is as truly an individual as he was when he was a child.”

Source : Henry Clay Trumbull (1893). “Hints on Child-training”

“I guess what inspires me most is the desire to draw out feelings that feel best expressed on the written page by really good authors, and I'm not a really good author. I feel like my job as a filmmaker is to eff the ineffable, to take feelings that only poets could describe with words and try to project them on the screen for viewers to feel. I don't think I've succeeded once but in the act of trying I've come up with all these other results which sometimes intrigue me.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com

“MIT is governed by a second, even higher rule: the inalienable right of academic freedom.”

“Consumed by the agony of remembrance The remembrance of night's festive company The one remaining candle flickers and dies.”

“My job is — I make socks. That’s all I do. I don’t necessarily care about the show. I would rather film this — me doing what I do — than being around my family.”