A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

What you guys want, I’m for.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

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

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

Listen, I think that people want a president who is going to be interested in the things that keep them up at night, the things that are weighing on them, the things that are debilitating and can be addressed.

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don’t seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs… I knew that my heart would break if ever I put my foot down on that soil, moist, still, with old hurts. I had to face the fear/loathing at its source or it would consume me whole.

The community – more than two billion people use our products, and we get that, with that, a lot of people are using that for a lot of good, but we also have a responsibility to mitigate the darker things that people are gonna try to do.

The second time around, I’ll understand that, as a husband, my wife doesn’t care about my opinions. I just need to tell her the things that will continue to help me stack the brownie points.

The capability of negotiating… is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.

A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don’t understand why it’s the government’s responsibility.

You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.

The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.

In cricket, my superhero is Sachin Tendulkar. He has always been my hero and will continue to remain so. Apart from him and outside cricket, my mother has remained my inspiration. Whatever difficult time I had faced, she was always there for me. She has given me all the strength. She maintained her composure and supported me in tough times.

Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don’t like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.

All of us are in the same place, each with our own rooms, and we were allowed to do whatever we wanted. Which is totally different than college, where they manage your schedule for you. In the NBA, you’re on your own.

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.

The best road to progress is freedom’s road.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

We need someone with superb judgement in their own right because, yes, a president can hire the best advisors on Earth, but I guarantee you this: Five advisors will give five different opinions. And it is the president – and the president alone – who always makes the final call.

White people just don’t want their slaves to be free. That’s the whole thing.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.

A properly balanced story provides an equal representation of the negative and positive attributes of, I could say the world, but it’s actually a being. ‚Harry Potter“s a good example. So Harry’s the hero, right. But he’s tainted with evil. There’s a dark and a light in every bit of that narrative. It’s well balanced.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

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.

There’s a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you’re self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn’t so easy in a car, and you can’t cover as much ground walking.

The great thing about having a bunch of kids is they just remind you that you’re the person who takes them to go poop!

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

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

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

I started off riding motorbikes and at that point my hero was Valentino Rossi.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

When you meet chimps you meet individual personalities. When a baby chimp looks at you it’s just like a human baby. We have a responsibility to them.

Facts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

Freedom is what everyone wants – to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‚within the limits of the law‘ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

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

To be social is to be forgiving.

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility – I welcome it.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

We should understand the source of our authority and something of the keys that control its power.

To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.

Hear reason, or she’ll make you feel her.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

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.