I’m old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I’d tell them where to put it.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what’s mine.

Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.

A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.

I found it hard to be young. When I was married in my twenties, I hated being regarded as ‚the little wife.‘ You don’t know what it was like then! I’d never even written a cheque. I had to ask my husband for money for groceries.

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven’t belonged to any company or any system. It isn’t easy to live like this in Japan.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It’s the only place I’m completely alone – up in the air, detached from everything.

I’m a businessman as well as an entertainer. The reason why is because I want to own whatever I’m doing. I don’t want to work for other people forever.

Cuba came to be the last country to get rid of Spanish colonialism and the first to shake off the heinous imperialist tutelage.

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

It was during the Reagan years that defiance of international law and the U.N. Charter became entirely open.

For me, it’s enough that I have the first and last word.

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the ’40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.

My rich dad believed we should all learn to take care of ourselves.

If you ever need anything please don’t hesitate to ask someone else first.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

I’m not looking for sympathy at all.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

Work alone is noble.

If you’re yelling you’re the one who’s lost control of the conversation.

I don’t kiss nobody’s butt.

I wish I could shut up, but I can’t, and I won’t.

Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

I never ask anyone else’s opinion. They don’t count.

I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It’s one of the reasons I dropped out of school.

Well I have a microphone and you don’t so you will listen to every damn word I have to say!

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don’t want to be a colony in a nation.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

Temptation is just the feeling that you’re the most independent person on planet Earth. That you know everything. That’s something that we all go through as a kid. Now, this lifestyle that I’m in, the same thing exists! But it’s 10 times worse, because everything is at my disposal. When you’re in the limelight, you can get anything you want.

I own my own company, so I’ve never had businessmen telling me what to do or getting worried if something doesn’t sell. I’ve always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop and so I’ve always had people buying them.

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.

I don’t like begging money from producers.

My parents pretty much realized that I would do whatever I wanted, and that was it, really.

The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.

If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

Facts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.

If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.

These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.

Don’t bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.

Some time ago, the United States was an English colony. If an Englishman were asked if the United States would be independent, he would have said no, that it would always be an English colony.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite for independence.

People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.

I realized why directors are such horrible people – in a way – because you want things to be right, and people will just not listen to you, and there is no time to be nice to people, no time to be delicate.

He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting ‚All the Gods are bastards.‘

The assertion that ‚all men are created equal‘ was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.