"One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought."

"Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school."

"How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?"

"I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing."

"Do not hurry what nature takes seasons to unfold. Such is the immutable nature of understanding — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm."

"As a state senator and then a congressman, I've had the privilege of trying to do good things for people to whom I owe so much and can never fully repay."

"It's interesting that I had such a close relationship with my grandfather. Because your parents always judge you: they say, 'You shouldn't do this, you shouldn't do that.' But with your grandparents you have a feeling that you can say anything or you can do anything, and they will support you. That's why you have this kind of connection."