“Human rights that do not apply to everyone are not human rights at all.”

“The relation of loving contains exactly those ordered pairs such that d loves e. This relation is presumably not reflexive on the set of all persons: some people do not love themselves. Much grief is caused by the fact that this relation is not symmetric....”

“Because others have let us down, it is now our duty to face the hard truths and do the right thing--no matter the personal cost.”

“We will go. Nowhere we know. We don't have to talk at all.”

“This is it, I thought. This is the part of us that makes our brief, improbable little lives worth living: the ability to reach through our own isolation and find strength, and comfort, and warmth for and in each other. This is what human beings do. This is what we live for, the way horses live to run.”

“Only those afraid of the truth seek to silence debate, intimidate those with whom they disagree, or slander their ideological counterparts. Those who know they are right have no reason to stifle debate because they realize that all opposing arguments will ultimately be overcome by fact.”

“Not a single time have we gotten a right from Congress or from the President. We get them from God.”