“Owning a gun doesn’t make someone a “shooter” any more than owning a surfboard makes someone a surfer.”

“You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.”

“It is better for any of you to carry a load of firewood on his own back than to beg from someone else.”

“There's nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.”

“All governments behave like any other instrument of war and terror. A gun doesn’t change it nature. When it is aimed at someone you fear or dislike, you will praise the importance of guns. When the gun is aimed at you, you will call for help against those who use guns.”

“Perhaps a hero is someone who doesn’t register his own vulnerability. Is it courage, then, if you’re too daft to know you’re mortal?”

“When making a commitment, make it not to someone, but of someone to yourself.”

“Cease to know or to tell
Or to see or to be your own
Have someone else's will as your own
Have someone else's will as your own.”

“Using your own time to make someone else’s life better is, like, the nicest thing you can do for anybody.”

“We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters.”