"We had to restructure our military and our politics and so on. We're a new democracy. We're a nascent democracy."

“I'm very proud of my heritage.”

Source : "Now It's J.J. Abrams' Turn to 'Trek'". Interview with Danielle Berrin, jewishjournal.com. May 6, 2009.

“I love to write. I love it. I mean there's nothin in the world I like better, and that includes sex, probably because I'm so very bad at it.”

“If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve”

Source : "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook C 54, 1799.

“I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.”

“I am like a cartoon strip; I am like Donald Duck; everybody knows me in Italy.”

“When you talk about revolution, it's very easy to romanticize picking up a gun or marching in the street, but I think before we take any of those actions, violence of course being the last one, we first have to have a revolution of the mind.”

Source : Source: readersupportednews.org

“Nothing is more evident, I venture to think, as a result of two or three thousand years of social philosophizing, than that society must live and thrive by way of the native impulses of individual human beings.”

Source : "Present Status of the Philosophy of Law and of Rights". Book by William Ernest Hocking, Ch. VII, Natural Right, § 30, p. 68, 1926.

“I end up saving the world, just to save you”