We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

I don’t set out to write about spirituality; I am free to do something different every time.

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired.

Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient.

At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It’s a gift.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

Now I do whatever I want.

He who is brave is free.

The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that’s always existed.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said.

Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

No book includes the entire world. It’s limited. And so it doesn’t seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There’s so much other material to write about.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.

He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve – not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country – those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy – the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.

To understand the power of the priesthood, we must know its limitations.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

To hold a pen is to be at war.

The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

It I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free myself from the morass. If I did not talk about Watergate, I was accused of being out of touch with reality.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.

In the flush of love’s light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant – Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world – including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

If you’re a surfer, you just want to surf. You don’t know if anyone’s going to see you, and you don’t really care if they see you. You just live for that feeling.

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

My life is not unlike Truman’s. I can’t go anywhere.