By putting these sort of lines around what ideas are proper or improper, we lose things.

There have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. Sometimes to do the right thing you have to break the law.

Arguing that you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.

Your rights matter, because you never know when you're going to need them.

It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be.

I don't want to live in a world where there's no privacy, and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity.

Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped.

Privacy matters; privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be.

The US government still has no idea what documents I have because encryption works

We need to think about encryption not as this sort of arcane, black art. It's a basic protection.

Because, remember, I didn't want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.

Self-observation is the first step of inner unfolding.

Divination is turning out to be much more trouble than I could have foreseen, never having studied the subject myself.

If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future

When the stars fall into darkness, I will quietly shine for you.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

I don't want to be too stiff, because then my hands won't be as quick.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

I was surprised when shortly after New Year's Day of 1983, the Governor of Texas summoned me to his office, because I hadn't been aware that he knew I was in town.