“Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs. Splash! There goes Mark Foley!”

“There’s a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.”

“Being chairman of the Senate Ethics Committee is like jumping off a cliff. The thrill is very short.”

“When you jump off a cliff, is it better to land on jagged rocks or burning lava? I know this one. The answer is obvious: It doesn't matter where you land. You just jumped off a cliff.”

“Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.”

“It’s too late to change your mind after you’ve jumped off the cliff.”

“Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.”

“A: The soul wanders in the dark, until it finds love. And so, wherever our love goes, there we find our soul.
Q: It always happens?
A: If we're lucky. And if we let ourselves be blind.
Q: Instead of watching out?
A: Instead of always watching out.”

“You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.”

“Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom.”