"The idea of withholding a massive secret is obviously quite exciting to some people. It is also the basis of much classic drama, of course, from Sophocles onwards."

“We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.”

Source : David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.66, Random House

“When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.”

Source : Travels in Alaska, ch.1,'The Puget Sound and British Columbia' (published1915).

“In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.”

“I've had so many great experiences in my life, of living total free will, that I wouldn't change it for all the gold in the earth.”

Source : Interview with Chris Simunek, hightimes.com. August 5, 2015.

“I'm the ruler in my kingdom and my dark seat is hot. Step into my world and your heartbeat stop!”

Source : Song: My World

“Hope is believing in spite of the evidence, and then watching the evidence change.”

Source : Jim Wallis (1982). “Waging peace: a handbook for the struggle to abolish nuclear weapons”, Harpercollins

“The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses.”

“There isn't a damn thing wrong with prayer. During the war I served with a guy who prayed all the time, carried a Bible with him everywhere. We all mocked him to no end. One day, that Bible stopped a bullet, my hand to God, that Bible stopped a bullet. If only he'd had another Bible in front of his face, he'd be alive today.”