"I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place."

"If you believe you can make a difference, not just in politics, in public service, in advocacy around all these important issues, then you have to be prepared to accept that you are not going to get 100 percent approval."

"I can resist everything except temptation."

"A sarcastic person is a person who is not only witty but also wise."

"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him."

"Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit but the highest form of intelligence."