True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

I don’t tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.

I’d read up on the history of our country and I’d become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries.

All of us are in the same place, each with our own rooms, and we were allowed to do whatever we wanted. Which is totally different than college, where they manage your schedule for you. In the NBA, you’re on your own.

Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

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

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

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

Bread without flesh is a good diet, as on many botanical excursions I have proved. Tea also may easily be ignored. Just bread and water and delightful toil is all I need – not unreasonably much, yet one ought to be trained and tempered to enjoy life in these brave wilds in full independence of any particular kind of nourishment.

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.

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn’t ever have to rely on the press for my information.

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

Nobody can tell me where I can and can’t go.

Being a kid’s not easy. You’re transforming and becoming a human being. At some point, you have everyone taking care of you, and then, all of a sudden, you’re out in the world.

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

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

We’re all caught up in circumstances, and we’re all good and evil. When you’re really hungry, for instance, you’ll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing – well, maybe that’s too strong – but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance.

You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can’t be entertained – or people who are afraid. You can’t entertain a man who has no food.

For me, it’s about becoming a mogul, owning my own projects, and establishing myself as a funding producer. That’s what’s big to me. The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I’m in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today’s military rejects include tomorrow’s hard-core unemployed.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

Fortunately we’re not a public company – we’re a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.

I don’t know if I’ve ever cared much what others think.

I’m of the school of thought where if you can’t sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.

Hunger is the best pickle.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

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

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

I was raised to be independent.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

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.

Hermits have no peer pressure.

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

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it’s almost impossible to stamp out.

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

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

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

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun.

If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.

If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

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.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

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.

In 1979, Iranians carried out an illegitimate act: They overthrew a tyrant that the United States had imposed and supported, and moved on an independent path, not following U.S. orders.

We don’t want to wait on someone to hire us and give us a check. We want to create our own opportunities.

The spirit of liberalism is to create free men; it is not the regimentation of men.

Your life must be a progression towards ownership – first mentally of your independence, and then physically of your work, owning what you produce.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it’s that I’ve never been a kept woman.

Now I do whatever I want.

Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

I have spoken about inflation, unemployment, farmers‘ problems, security, etc. I keep talking about these issues. I seek answers from the Indian government.

A smart girl leaves before she is left.

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.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

We’re not a fragile people. We’re not a frightful people. Our power doesn’t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don’t look to be ruled.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.