When it comes to political engagement, I'm not a politician - I'm an engineer.

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.

This is how most stories end in the hospital. Not with crash carts and sirens and electric shocks to the chest, but with an empty room, a crisp white bed, silence.

Meditation is the vitamin for your mind.

Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.

A human being is all hope and impatience.

Georg always looks beautiful! He wakes up like beauty himself

Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.

A doctor today would never prescribe the treatments my grandfather used in the Confederate Army, but a minister says pretty much the same thing today that a minister would have said back then.

For now we must continue to strengthen our sanctions and pressure on North Korea.

I always love being in the company of women. It's all about good conversation and great wine.

Certainty... lurks at the door of faith and threatens to devour it.