I could have spent eight years doing anything, and at some level, it would have been fine. I could have focused on flowers. I could have focused on decor. I could have focused on entertainment. Because any First Lady, rightfully, gets to define her role. There’s no legislative authority; you’re not elected. And that’s a wonderful gift of freedom.

On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage… You start to think that you’re Tom Jones.

If you tell me there’s something I can’t do, I’ll want to do it even more. Especially when it comes to entertaining.

The Israelites‘ slavery in Egypt is the equivalent of our slavery to sin. God sent Moses to deliver them from bondage, and He sent Jesus Christ to set us free.

Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America’s servicemen and women.

Stand-up is hard.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

I don’t have freedom in the United States to go into a public school and preach the Gospel, nor is a student free in a public school to pray, or a teacher free to read the Bible publicly to the students. At the same time, we have a great degree of freedom for which I am grateful.

My goal is to make everyone and anyone a Kevin Hart fan.

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone – a memory.

As we all know, sequels can be tricky.

This young century will be liberty’s century.

You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.

I’ll be like Bob Hope, touring when I’m 100.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

I do all my own stunts. I’m kidding.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

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.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Crankiness is at the essence of all comedy. My wife and I were discussing the different types of cranky. There’s entertaining cranky, annoying cranky, angry cranky.

I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television – there wasn’t a lot to entertain us. When it rained, I stayed inside reading, writing, drawing.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with great passion. That is because human beings need stories.

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don’t care what they say, they like it.

Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of ‚I know.‘ Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘

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

No man is free who is not master of himself.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

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.

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government – that is despotism.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

I’ve always loved the showmanship of professional wrestling. While I love making movies, I love that platform, too.

Disneyland is a show.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

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

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

The celebrity-chef thing, even at its worst, its most annoying, its silliest, its goofiest, its most egregious and cynical, has been a good thing.

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

I make pop culture.

I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.

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

You don’t have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

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 always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I’m blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles – the oppression of tyranny – to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.