Democracy can't function without an informed citizenry.

Democracy cannot meaningfully function without an informed citizenry, and such a citizenry is impossible without broad public access to information about the operations of government.

The notion that the records of government are the property of the people is radically democratic, but it is broken in practice.

Mandela today is almost universally held as a heroic freedom fighter, and of course rightly so.

If you're tired, if you're in pain, if you're worried or afraid - you're human. Remember that Superman is not your patron Saint. Be kind to you.

Since the future is unknown, in every step forward we walk to the unknown!

These are the moments that make the dot-to-dot pictures of our past

[Abbas Kiarostami] is a great artist and a poet. I sometimes think that if Samuel Beckett made films, he'd make them like Kiarostami makes them.

If the room is friendly to a relationship between lecturer and audience, you feel everything - the tension, the appreciation. I think the audience feels it too.

If two people want to get married, get married! The Victorians had a great saying: As long as it doesn't scare the horses, do what you want. And I absolutely believe that.

I'm not sure cavemen had plumbers. They probably just used a hole.

Rejection is a gift and failure is the best educator, so when someone knocks you down, get back up!

Dost thou wish to receive mercy? Show mercy to thy neighbor.

To say doctrine doesn't matter, only how you live matters, is itself a doctrine. It's the doctrine of salvation by works.