"A friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself."

"the future's uncertain and the end is always near"

"I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical."

"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask."

"There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors."

"Film spectators are quiet vampires."

"There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors."

"This is the strangest life I've ever known."

"I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between. I want the freedom to try everything."

"I believe in a long, prolonged derangement of the senses to attain the unknown. Our pale reasoning hides the infinite from us."

"We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict."

"Whoever controls the media, controls the mind."

"I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences."

"When you make your peace with authority, you become authority."

"Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts."

"What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic."

"The burning of rebellious thoughts in the little breast, of internal hatred and opposition, could not long go on without slight whiffs of external smoke, such as mark the course of subterranean fire."

"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone."

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

"Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room, from which we go forth to more careful and guarded intercourse, leaving behind...cast-off and everyday clothing."

"If it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers."

"The bitterest tear shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone"

"In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike."

"O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, 'Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!"

"So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women"

"The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity."

"I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt."

"Human nature is above all things—lazy."

"Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong."

"It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done."

"Most mothers are instinctive philosophers."

"Friendships are discovered rather than made."

"I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place."

"I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation."

"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn"

"The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today."

"I no more thought of style or literary excellence than the mother who rushes into the street and cries for help to save her children from a burning house, thinks of the teachings of the rhetorician or the elocutionist."

"To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization."

"WHAT DO WE WANT?! PATIENCE! WHEN DO WE WANT IT?! NOW!"

"Mistakes are a part of being human. Precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from."

"The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover."

"Too many people don't protect their smartphones with a password or PIN. I anticipate that Apple's fingerprint reader will in fact make iPhone 5S owners more likely to secure their smartphones."

"In my first week as a U.S. senator, I had the privilege of participating in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor."

"Service dogs raise their masters' sense of well-being."

"Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran. But when the veteran has a dog, the same people will come up and say, 'Hi' to pet the dog and then strike up a conversation."

"The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans' privacy. But when Americans lack the most basic information about our domestic surveillance programs, they have no way of knowing whether we're getting that balance right. This lack of transparency is a big problem."

"National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account."

"It's hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it's impossible to have that debate."

"I'm crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book."

"When you live in New York, one of two things happen - you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from."