The price of freedom keeps going up, but the quality keeps deteriorating.

Instead of past, present and future, I'd prefer chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry.

To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target

Be kind to unkind people. They need it the most.

Please don't lie to me,unless,you're sure I'll never find out the truth.

The greatest obstacle to discovering the truth is being convinced that you already know it.

I want either less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.

I too have known joy and sadness, and, on the whole, I prefer joy.

I'll give up my bad habits as soon as equally satisfying good habits become available.

I may not be perfect, but parts of me are excellent.

Keep some souvenirs of your past, or how will you ever prove it wasn't all a dream?

The hallmark of a decision in line with one’s inner development is a feeling of having laid down a burden and picked up a more natural responsibility.

Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing.

I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.

Every governor's got tough choices to make.

Life begins at conception, but allow early abortions.

Otherwise, three little words would have leaked from his mouth. And undoubtedly doomed him in ways he couldn’t even guess at. Bad time. Bad place. For that kind of thing. Forever.

Nonviolence, when it becomes active, travels with extraordinary velocity, and then it becomes a miracle.

I'm a human rights activist and it doesn't make any sense not to treat everybody the exact same way. It just doesn't make any sense, it's counter intuitive, it's inhuman and it has to stop.

You sure you're not a Roman, Annabeth? Or an Amazon?

Sometimes we need to tell ourselves that we're not going to do certain things, just in order to stay sane.