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

"Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws."

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

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

"It was so popular, so more people identify me from 'Friends' than anything else."

"All punishment is mischief. All punishment in itself is evil."

"I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science."

"It is a humble truth that a leader does not command the wind, but sets the sails and steadies the crew — an essential principle for the reflective life."