If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

Demonstrate to the world, there is ‚No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy‘ than a U.S. Marine.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

I don’t like begging money from producers.

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

True friends stab you in the front.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

I know that I came into the world with what I call ‚big dharma‘ – with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

A smart girl leaves before she is left.

You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.

A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Our position is that we do not accept conditions of any kind which may affect the independence and sovereignty of our country just with the view to solve economic problems existing between the United States and Cuba.

The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

For me, it’s enough that I have the first and last word.

I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.

What someone else does or doesn’t do has no effect on me and what I do.

Among us, who is above must be in service of the others. This doesn’t mean we have to wash each other’s feet every day, but we must help one another.

For all the supporters of Tesla over the years, and it’s been several years now and there have been some very tough times, I’d just like to say thank you very much. I deeply appreciate the support, particularly through the darkest times.

The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law of the land; for were that faith and allegiance more than what the law requires, we would swear ourselves slaves and the King absolute; whereas, by the law, we are free men, notwithstanding those oaths.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.

Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they suffer from feelings of isolation. I think that is one reason why young readers support my work.

Hermits have no peer pressure.

Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.

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

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

I actually feel more of a woman because I feel like I’m being smart about my choices, and I’m putting my family first, and I’m in charge of my life and my health. I think that’s what makes a woman complete.

I own my own company, so I’ve never had businessmen telling me what to do or getting worried if something doesn’t sell. I’ve always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop and so I’ve always had people buying them.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

A man’s own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself.

I never ask anyone else’s opinion. They don’t count.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other – and we still are.

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.

Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.

I don’t see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that’s almost inconceivable.

Maybe ‚loner‘ is too strong a word, but I’ve always enjoyed being on my own.

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

It shows ‚us vs. them‘, and I’m on the ‚us‘ side.

Just like every person who works for Dortmund is a fan of the club, it was the same at Mainz. When I was a player there, we had 800 supporters on rainy Saturday afternoons, and if we died, no one would notice or come to our funeral. But we loved the club, and we have this same feeling at Dortmund.

I’ll never tell a lie. I’ll never make a misleading statement. I’ll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I’ll never avoid a controversial issue.

I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country.