Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

I don't play for the records, I play because I love the game.

Language is not a cultural artifact that we learn the way we learn to tell time or how the federal government works. Instead, it is a distinct piece of the biological makeup of our brains.

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."