There are some things that should not be leaked without authorization.

In my estimation, there has not been in American history a more important leak than Edward Snowden's release of NSA material – and that definitely includes the Pentagon Papers 40 years ago.

It's true that most people find it far more comfortable to trust an authority than to have their faith questioned.

Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.

We need the courage to face the truth about what we are doing in the world and act responsibly to change it.

But it is important always to keep in mind that the danger of harming humans is not connected only or even mainly with telling secrets, there can be great danger in keeping secrets.

You needn't think there is nothing you can do-you can tell the truth.

There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.

We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.

It is a tribute to the American people that our leaders perceived that they had to lie to us, it is not a tribute to us that we were so easily misled.

This wholesale invasion of Americans’ and foreign citizens’ privacy does not contribute to our security; it puts in danger the very liberties we’re trying to protect.

I will scream as the sanity leaves my mind forever. I will scream...but there is no one there to hear me.

Synchronicity is the soul's reminder of authorship.

Be dangerous, darling, for the whole world rises and falls at your feet.

They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

New Orleans in an amazing town.

I never know what you really want, if I can give it to you, or if I’m already too late.

The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge.

Truth is child of Time.

Life is defined more by its contrasts than its samenesses; Life is defined more by its risks than the many securities.