Apple doesn't have to write code, which equals speech, when it doesn't agree with what the government wants to do. And it's not that the government can't make you do anything you don't want to do.

Looking back at Tim Cook's public appearances in the last few years makes the standoff with the government look almost inevitable.

The relevant part of the First Amendment here prohibits the making of any law, quote, "abridging the freedom of speech." And it's pretty well-established that speech comes in many forms.

Under [Tim] Cook's leadership, Apple is now using 100 percent renewable energy in the U.S. and China, and it's worked to improve conditions at its manufacturing plants in China.

Tim Cook has not been afraid to confront the government on issues he considers morally important.

The key of life symbolizes the map of existence. Once you free yourself from all resistance, your path will become white for the remainder of the distance.

I know love is real because I feel it.

For me, the more I live, the more I need to write. The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.

Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.

One day you are happy and laughing and the next you are crying.

God has no cousins, only children.

Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short.

Sanitation should not be seen as a political tool, but should only be connected to patriotism (rashtrabhakti) and commitment to public health.

I'm not a goody-two-shoes. I'm just a father with four children.

I want to do work where I have something to say.