But I remember the moment when my father died. I wasn't a very committed Catholic beforehand but when that happened it suddenly all felt so obvious: I now believe religion is our attempt to find an explanation for us to feel more protected.

The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour raw and confrontational.

I think a primal role of a man in a relationship is to protect his woman.

The relationship between a military working dog and a military dog handler is about as close as a man and a dog can become. You see this loyalty the devotion unlike any other and the protectiveness.

Over the years I've been trying to build a relationship with an audience. I've tried to maintain as much of a low profile as I could so that those characters would emerge and their relationship with audiences would be protected.

Protect IP (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) are a step towards a different kind of Internet. They are a step towards an Internet in which those with money and lawyers and access to power have a greater voice than those who don't.

The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long and no longer than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.

I say the law should be blind to race gender and sexual orientation just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind except for children the severely disabled and the elderly whose physical frailty demands society's care.

Sometimes power is all a person has so they will protect it even unto their own destruction for without power they have nothing.

Power is no blessing in itself except when it is used to protect the innocent.