I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

It’s hard to practice compassion when we’re struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

I just have always felt that people don’t change, circumstances change.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn’t express to an individual, I would express them in my music.

There are no second acts in American lives.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

Learning about climate change triggered my depression in the first place. But it was also what got me out of my depression, because there were things I could do to improve the situation. I don’t have time to be depressed anymore.

It’s always a struggle growing up in Akron.

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn’t as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

I’m no genius.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

I don’t think I’m tangible to myself.

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

I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn’t care for it in other people either.

Thoughts are fine when you don’t confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.

What I tell my kids is, ‚I’m preparing you for college and for life. So, having independence, knowing how to set your own boundaries, figuring out how to make that balance. We still have screen-time rules.‘

I don’t live by all these rigid, weird rules that make me feel all fenced in. I just like the way that I feel like, and that makes me feel very free.

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

When even one American – who has done nothing wrong – is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth – then all Americans are in peril.

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

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.

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other.

All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

The only certain freedom’s in departure.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

I’m concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I’m aiming for, which is not such a good thing.

What nourishes me also destroys me.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China’s Communists.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

Key is never be afraid of being yourself. Never!

To be free is to have achieved your life.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

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

The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don’t really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it’s way more intricate than what meets the surface.

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.

Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.