“What is the Third Estate? Everything. What has it been hitherto in the political order? Nothing. What does it desire to be? Something.”

“J'ai vécu. (Translation: I have survived or I existed.)[After the Reign of Terror, when asked what he had done during that period]”

“A nation of monkeys with the throat of parrots.[Note to Mirabeau, speaking of France]”

“What hackers do is figure out technology and experiment with it in ways many people never imagined. They also have a strong desire to share this information with others and to explain it to people whose only qualification may be the desire to learn.”

“What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.”

“I will say this quite plainly, what truly human is -and don't be afraid of this word- love. And I mean it even with everything that burdens love or, i could say it better, responsibility is actually love, as Pascal said: 'without concupiscence' [without lust]... love exists without worrying being loved.”

“What we need today are not more laws to govern believers. What we need is a greater revelation and appreciation of Jesus and everything that He has done for us! ”