People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There’s just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story.

Do everything as in the eye of another.

With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.

The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

All good books have one thing in common – they are truer than if they had really happened.

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

There’s a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you call it up in the reader. That’s what writers do when they’re good.

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.

I don’t care how busy I am – I will always make time for what’s most important to me.

You will always have partial points of view, and you’ll always have the story behind the story that hasn’t come out yet. And any form of journalism you’re involved with is going to be up against a biased viewpoint and partial knowledge.

From my standpoint, being an artist, I want to see what the new construction is between artist and audience.

I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

I’ve never considered musical equipment very sacred.

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

This isn’t life in the fast lane, it’s life in the oncoming traffic.

I hope I didn’t bore you too much with my life story.

I never start out with any kind of connecting theme or plan. Everything just falls the way it falls. I don’t ever think about what kind of fiction I write or what I am writing about or what I am trying to write about. When I’m writing, what I do is I think about a story that I want to tell.

In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth.

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.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

‚Thursday‘ is a conceptual album. Whatever that situation was, I spent the whole album focusing on that situation.

I have the space and liberty to create.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

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

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.

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.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.

Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!

Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

The only certain freedom’s in departure.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.

The government argues that First Amendment rights are outweighed by the need to prosecute those who transmit classified information and documents.

I’m entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they’re thinking and who they are and who’s hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what’s the story, really?

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

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.

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words ‚Ich bin ein Berliner!‘

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.