Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it’s wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.

Even today we raise our hand against our brother… We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

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

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

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

Every loss of life is terrible.

I simply can’t build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death… I think… peace and tranquillity will return again.

Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego’s fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

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

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

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

As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need.

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

The magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don’t attack each other. Free nations don’t develop weapons of mass destruction.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.

America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.

If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it’s there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.

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.

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror – not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.

And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish’d from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish’d from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!

The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That’s the way the mind of man operates.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

The valiant never taste of death but once.

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

It is impossible to experience one’s death objectively and still carry a tune.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

Freedom lies in being bold.

My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

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

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.