Mercy is not what every criminal is entitled to. What he is entitled to is justice.

The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion.

I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy.

The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.

The moment politics becomes dull, democracy is in danger.

Abuse is the very hallmark of liberty.

Political liberty is nothing else but the diffusion of power.

If dictatorship is the concentration of power, freedom consists in its diffusion.

You ought not to be ashamed of being bored. What you ought to be ashamed of is being boring.

A reasonable doubt is nothing more than a doubt for which reasons can be given. The fact that 1 or 2 men out of 12 differ from the others does not establish that their doubts are reasonable.

A politician who enters public life may as well face the fact that the best way of not being found out is not to do anything which, if found out, will cause his ruin.

I have forgotten my umbrella.

That's when I remember if you have a choice, always ask friends to leave in a very nice voice.

Females and boys are the only creatures that propose others for friendship. As for the rest of us, friendship sort of just happens.

I believe in romance... in playfulness... in passion... in expressing feelings... in friendship... in all the ways love heals, nourishes, and transforms "you" and "me" into an "us".

Trust cannot be commanded; and yet it is also correct that the only one who earns trust is the one who is prepared to grant trust.

It's a funny semantic turn - when someone paints a landscape, no one says they "borrowed" it, only that they painted it.

In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.

I do think that I have a more flexible view of the interactions between people, and between human and non-human protagonists, humans and their landscapes.

Those who insist on transferring the Iranian nuclear dossier to the UN Security Council have received an additional argument for doing so.

We human beings instinctively regard the seen world as the "real" world and the unseen world as the "unreal" world, but the Bible calls for almost the opposite.