"Passive perception promotes pessimism; Persistent perseverance promises prosperity"

“Guns make you stupidbetter to fight your wars with duct tape. Duct tape makes you smart.”

Source : "Fictional character: Michael Westen". "Burn Notice/ Pilot", www.imdb.com. 2007.

“Youth Liberation has argued for some time that young people should have the right to have sex as well as not to have it, and with whom they choose. The statutory structure of the sex laws has been identified as oppressive and insulting to young people. A range of sexual activities are legally defined as molestation, regardless of the quality of the relationship or the amount of consent involved.”

“A tear that runs down a believer's cheek is more beneficial than a thousand raindrops on the earth”

“Hope is never silent.”

“I've seen a lot of movies where a kid my age finds out he's got magical powers and then gets invited to go away to some special school. Well, if I've got an invitation coming, now would be the perfect time to get it”

“Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea, God Bless, keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and paid forward for the next kid who comes along.”

“For the only way one can speak of nothing is to speak of it as though it were something, just as the only way one can speak of God is to speak of him as though he were a man, which to be sure he was, in a sense, for a time, and as the only way one can speak of man, even our anthropologists have realized that, is to speak of him as though he were a termite.”

“The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.”