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

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I’m the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

Consciously or unconsciously most of us adhere to what is expected of our role because we realize our social success depends on this. Some may refuse to play this game, but in the end they are marginalized and forced to play the outsider role, with limited options and decreasing freedom as they get older.

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.

The less you know, the more you believe.

As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else’s, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.

I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

It’s very hard for our parents who see us enter a world that they can’t imagine.

In the game of cricket, a hero is a person who respects the game and does not corrupt the game. The one who doesn’t or corrupts the game, they are the villain. They should be punished, and they have been punished in the past.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

Meditation demands an astonishingly alert mind; it is the understanding of the totality of life in which every form of fragmentation has ceased.

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

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

Many shoulder heavy burdens of righteous responsibility which, on occasion, seem so difficult to bear. I have heard those challenges termed impossible.

I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

I liked watching Rossi, his style, his colours and everything. He was someone I looked up to and until now he is still my only hero. He is the king of motorbikes and most people like Rossi mainly because he comes across as a pretty fun and good character. He is cool and has a good style and look.

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

I don’t have a problem with Hulk Hogan. People say things and do things, and who am I to judge?

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

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

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.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

From the FA to UEFA and FIFA, there’s a naivety, a lack of knowledge and understanding and packed with people who are out of touch.

It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.

My friend has a baby. I’m recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom – and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.

If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

My readers – and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer, you do understand me also. We are in the same level.

I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don’t like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don’t like to be shaped by society.

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 true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

We tend to mistake music for the physical object.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.