You shouldn't change your behavior because a government agency somewhere is doing the wrong thing. If you sacrifice your values because you're afraid, you don't care about those values very much.

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.

I begin to be impatient of solitude - to feel its draperies hang sweltering, unwholesome about me.

Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself to sit down until I came up with something.

There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I'm conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.

I grew up in the theater. I began my career at 3. That was the first time I stepped onto a provisional stage.

We call for, actually, a weapons embargo to the Middle East, which we can lead since we are supplying the majority of weapons which, in fact, then find their way into all parties on all sides.

What does God require of us? Our part is to believe. Our work is to trust the Lord. His requirement is that we let go and let God.

On Furnishing One's Home - Pick your furniture like you pick a wife; it should make you feel comfortable and look nice, but not so nice that if someone walks past it they want to steal it.

I have a very primitive sense that if I just turn on a radio or the television, that somebody's playing that stuff for me.

I would like to think there is a reason and a choice behind everything.

Without mortification nothing can be done.