We know the secret police's methods, and the way the archive and registry were run - that's how we know. We've also found evidence from the Bolek file cited in other files.

My favorite color is you.

But what good is it to teach a child to count, if you don't show him that he counts for something?

...what makes humanity beautiful is our free will, our individuality, our endless striving in spite of our imperfection.BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOONChapter 27 Page 214

The worth of a state in the long run is the worth of the individuals composing it.

Buddha had said: "Each of us is a God. Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom.

We're going to do things beyond waterboarding perhaps, if that happens to come.

Am I like the optimist who, while falling ten stories from a building, says at each story, I'm all right so far?

Philosophy first constructs a scheme of happiness and then tries to fit the world to it.

The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.

The atheist barista (who's obsessed with astrology) asked me, "So what's your sign?" I responded, "The sign of the cross." I think she spit in my coffee.