There are more important things than money. If I were motivated by money, I could have sold these documents to any number of countries and gotten very rich.

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.

When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.

I am Death. I come quickly, I come slowly, but I am not cheated.

Forget Batman: when I really thought about what I wanted to be when I grew up, I wanted to be my dad.

Criticism always hurts most when we deserve it.

You must believe in yourself enough to be the person now that others will remember you for later.

Nothing but religious faith has been able to save men from despair.

All fame is is having people you don't know coming up to you and saying, 'Hello.' I'm always polite and people are always nice, but it's weird.

Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.