"Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility."

“The common characteristics of people make a community possible, but it is their uncommon qualities that make it better.”

“I like playing the social convention. If you're in a period drama, there's always something dancing underneath the surface as a human - but then you always have to conform to the social conventions around you, and those two things get to be juxtaposed against each other. You're being human, but you're trapped within the social convention of the time.”

Source : "Doctor Who’s Impossible Girl". Interview with Devon Ivie, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 19, 2014.

“There are only a few places that I go where people recognize me anyway. I have to be at the right place, in the right city. It's not really that much of an issue.”

Source : "Davey Havok of AFI". Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. December 6, 2009.

“A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.”

“Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.”

“Never, never, never join a movement that persecutes people because of their faith.”

“What is more obscene: the idea that one can apologize for the hubris and deceit that is Obama and his health care, or the actual need some have for an apology from an entity so evil that he would toy with the lives of millions as though they were insects and he God? This is hard to tell.”

“The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it. It gives them new self-respect; it calls up resources of strength and courage they did not know they had.”