The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.

The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

Synchronicity - the sense of significance beyond chance

To my mind, one does not put oneself in place of the past, one only adds a new link.

There is no hatred in my love for you. Only a sadness I feel all the more strongly for my inability to explain or describe it.

The question is who ought to make that decision, the Congress or the commanders? And as you know, my position is clear. I'm a commander guy.

She's a very charismatic character, and she holds the whole play together.

When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there.

We have both lost ourselves and created something else, something that exists only as an interlacing of the two of us.

I had to prepare physically every day, and I didn't leave many scraps for the writers

The Divorce, it's just like any performance that's given where I really just completely lost myself in that life.