I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

If you realize all the time what’s kind of wonderful – that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience – every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything’s pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

I’ve used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I’ve still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.

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

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

I just get annoyed at myself. A lot of swearing goes on generally when I am driving.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

He who can be, and therefore is, another’s, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way, an artistic way. Who knows.

The most common criticism I get is that I’m being manipulated and you shouldn’t use children in political ways, because that is abuse, and I can’t think for myself and so on. And I think that is so annoying! I’m also allowed to have a say – why shouldn’t I be able to form my own opinion and try to change people’s minds?

We all have done something unethical.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes‘ palaces.

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it’s up to me to choose to develop them.

Every three months, I’ll say, ‚Honey, I think I should learn how to cook‘.

If there are people you haven’t forgiven, you’re not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

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

Our whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don’t want to suffer. We don’t want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we’re living our lives in a very comfortable area. There’s no growth in that.

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

It’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

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

Sorry, I’m still a dialectical materialist.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.