It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace.

What a lot of things there are a man can do without.

Socrates

Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.

Joseph Stalin

I am not worried, Harry,' said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. 'I am with you.

J.K. Rowling

Your understanding of your inner self holds the meaning of your life.

Leo Tolstoy

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.

Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories,

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Franz Kafka

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

Jane Austen

He whom the gods love dies young.

Plautus

If you want to be happy, be.

Leo Tolstoy

It's correct that I wanted health reform to do more to create choices and promote competition.

Ron Wyden

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it -- or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

G. K. Chesterton

Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.

George Boole