"Truth is within ourselves. There is an inmost center in us all, where the truth abides in fullness."

“Anyone, from the most clueless amateur to the best cryptographer, can create an algorithm that he himself can't break.”

Source : "Memo to the Amateur Cipher Designer". Cryptogram Newsletter, www.schneier.com. October 15, 1998.

“The price for using dark magic is death, so that goes a long way toward deterring users.”

“Read properly, fewer books than a hundred would suffice for a liberal education. Read superficially, the British Museum Library might still leave the student a barbarian.”

“Music allows the great opportunity to play with people you love.”

“When I was doing standup, I always wanted to get out of the standup world and take it back into the theatrical world, like with 'No Cure For Cancer.'”

“Humankind has the science and technology to destroy itself or to provide prosperity for all. But while science offers us these opportunities, science will not make that choice for us. Only the moral power of a world acting as a community can”

“Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.”

Source : Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2011). “Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

“To be alive in this beautiful, self-organizing universe -- to participate in the dance of life with senses to perceive it, lungs that breathe it, organs that draw nourishment from it -- is a wonder beyond words.”

Source : Joanna Macy, Molly Young Brown (2014). “Coming Back to Life: The Guide to the Work that Reconnects”, p.91, New Society Publishers