We need to put the security back in the National Security Agency. We can't have the national surveillance agency.

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.

To live is to learn.

Sticks and stones may break your bones, but I will surely kill you.

To enter into the initiation of sound, of vibration and mindfulness, is to take a giant step toward consciously knowing the soul.

There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated

Innocence has a friend in heaven.

Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice.

The thought of you being removed from the rotation is not funny to me.

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.

Using, as an excuse, others' failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.