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.

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.

Quite frankly, Russian aggression in Ukraine and its illegal occupation of Crimea remind us that we still have a good deal more work to do to guarantee the strategic vision of a Europe whole, free and at peace.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

I’d read up on the history of our country and I’d become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries.

If… many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

Is man one of God’s blunders? Or is God one of man’s blunders?

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

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

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.

Jesus isn’t lettin‘ you off the hook. The Scriptures don’t let you off the hook so easily… When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher‘, ‚Prophet‘, ‚Really nice guy‘ … this is not how Jesus thought of Himself.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

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

Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded this sweet life-supporting planet – the only one in the whole Milky Way – with a century of transportation whoopee.

The human heart is the same the world over.

I hope not to define myself by suffering.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

Throughout my years in business, I discovered something. I would always ask why you do things. The answers that I would invariably get are: ‚Oh, that’s just the way things are done around here.‘ Nobody knows why they do what they do. Nobody thinks very deeply about things in business.

The white man is destroying the world.

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I’d be a damn‘ fool if they weren’t.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are… than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.

Empire and liberty.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We’re inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, ‚Gimme, gimme, gimme,‘ you will always be in short supply.

What we think, we become.

If you’re a surfer, you just want to surf. You don’t know if anyone’s going to see you, and you don’t really care if they see you. You just live for that feeling.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

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

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don’t let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

We’re all sinners. Everybody you meet all over the world is a sinner.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight… the truly wise person is colorblind.

I actually don’t want a throne at all, because I don’t view myself as a queen; I view myself as one of my fans.

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

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I’m not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that’s why they identify with me.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

I consider the fact that thousands of children die each day from starvation and a lack of medicine a crisis for humanity and a problem we must collectively attempt to solve.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.

Some people feel that the world owes them a living.