It isn't a mistake to have strong views. The mistake is to have nothing else.

If Churchill recommends optimism, who are you or I to quibble?

You cannot have an agency that defends your property, which also has the right to violate your property rights at will. That's like hiring a bodyguard that you pay to beat you up randomly.

Earth, " Alexa finally said. "It's not that great anyway." And they all smiled sadly. Because, of course, it was everything.

I have always lived according to my conscience, and my past is clean.

See how free we are! as a nation of persons.

I'm always being asked to play roles or characters that I don't really resemble.

Music revives the recollections it would appease.

The aphorism sometimes casts off cynicism and expresses strong feeling.

I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it.

I had been right: freedom smelled like ozone and thunderstorms and gunpowder all at once, like snow and bonfires and cut grass, it tasted like seawater and oranges.

Men have periods too, they just don't bleed.