I think all of our human Experience shows that no one with absolute power can be trusted to give it up even in part

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

The only title in our democracy superior to that of President is the title of citizen.

If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.

It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.

The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up.

...And meanwhile the Galaxy ran through space and left behind those signs old and new and I still hadn't found mine.

Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level.

Resurrection does not simply spell the survival of the soul but requires the transformation of the world as we know it.

I feel like I try to keep learning every time I step off a runway, I try to get better with each one.

I like characters with flaws, who have shadow.

There is no barrier to success which diligence and perseverance cannot hurdle.

But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.

When you're doing standup you're kind of doing, "Hey. I thought of this. This may be funny.