The only real prison is fear, ...

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

I have my writing therapy. For me, writing and friends therapy is an internal journey where you go in deep, you reflect, you try to heal your inner child. But as an activist, there's the outward, going wide therapy, where you get to realize at a certain point that talking about yourself gets boring. And it's also unhealthy to be so much into yourself. At some point, you have got to be able to look at the issue and say, "It's not about you. It's about a culture, a people, a nation, a family.