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.

It’s hard to tell with these Internet startups if they’re really interested in building companies or if they’re just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don’t really want to build a company, they won’t luck into it. That’s because it’s so hard that if you don’t have a passion, you’ll give up.

I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry – writing at writing.

At the end of the day, we started playing football because we loved it.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

I have the space and liberty to create.

I love to take, process and share photos – it fills me up.

My purpose is to make exciting music, and I feel like I’ll be doing that for the rest of my life, so there’s no pressure.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: ‚This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.‘ Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

Racing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

I can get where some scientists would say comedians are crazy. What you have to understand: A lot of comedians are dealing with a dark passion. A lot of these are guys coming from a tumultuous life, including myself. Some people need outlets, a way to express yourself.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

I believe in singing.

I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Although I’ve been living in the British Virgin Islands for some time now, I have never stopped caring passionately about the U.K. and its great people.

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.

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I’m loving to do. And if that doesn’t happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I’ll have my high heels on.

I’ve always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.

You want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‚Well gee, let’s not mess this up.‘ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

I can do whatever I want.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It’s not like Egypt, where you’re going to get murdered by the security forces.

I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven’t tried that for a while. Maybe this time it’ll work.

I don’t have a vast longing for the stage.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what’s right. Freedom is right.

And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

I groan daily under a body of sin and corruption. Oh for the time when I shall drop this flesh, and be free from sin!

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

I wish I could say to all those people who consider themselves anarchists or radicals: Please join the nonviolent movement. This is how Gandhi freed India. If Gandhi freed India, we can certainly free the United States from our racism, misogyny, and bigotry.

I’m never gonna step away from stand-up. I can’t. That’s what got me where I am, and that’s also my muse. That’s how I stay level-headed. That’s what keeps me going.

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.

Strong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you’re connected to Spirit, or ‚inspired,‘ if you will. When you’re inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

Where liberty is, there is my country.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.