I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

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.

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

I have a hard time figuring out what kind of box to put me in, too, because I don’t know exactly what’s going on around me or why. But I need to stay outside of boxes because then I can look at what’s inside of them without being part of them.

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

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.

We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature’s God.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already.

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.

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.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.

When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

My heroes don’t have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don’t know how, so they talk to themselves.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

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

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

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

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.

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?

I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

I don’t think I’m tangible to myself.

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.

I am in my own head most of the time.

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

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.

I have an existential map. It has ‚You are here‘ written all over it.

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.

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.