I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.

Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they're used.

There comes a point where emotions must give way to objective facts.

Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.

Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.

There comes a point when you have to realize that the sum of all your blood, sweat, and tears will ultimately amount to zero.

The highest distinction is service to others.

After all we'd been through, we still couldn't take our heads from out of our asses or our hands from around each other's throats.

You can't blame anyone else, ..., no one but yourself. You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices.

Do you understand economics? I mean big-time, prewar, global capitalism. Do you get how it worked? I don't, and anyone who says they do is full of shit.

What we did, what every president since Washington has done, was provide a measured, appropriate response, in direct relation to a realistic threat assessment.

Sometimes I wish life was written pencil so we could erase it and write it all over again.

Jenny was struck again by the contrast between his attractiveness and his shyness. It was endearing.

The [true] intellectual is he who does not let harm done to others and nor let any harm done to even one's own self.

The issue I brought forward most clearly was that of mass surveillance, not of surveillance in general.

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.

Acting was always a part and faucet of my life. It just comes very natural. I think it's a good thing.

I can love the people who hold false opinions but I don't have to be nice to them.

I'm not sure I'll come back to this planet. I may come back to another one.

We all have hearts.... If you have a heart, love somebody. If you have enough heart, love everybody.