Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

There’s an ecstatic side to writing. It’s like jazz. It just has a life.

When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out.

The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean.

All of us are in the same place, each with our own rooms, and we were allowed to do whatever we wanted. Which is totally different than college, where they manage your schedule for you. In the NBA, you’re on your own.

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.

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

It is natural to die as to be born.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

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

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

I don’t have freedom in the United States to go into a public school and preach the Gospel, nor is a student free in a public school to pray, or a teacher free to read the Bible publicly to the students. At the same time, we have a great degree of freedom for which I am grateful.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

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.

I am a little too absorbed by science to be able to philosophise much; but the more I look into myself, the more I find myself possessed by the conviction that it is only the science of Christ running through all things, that is to say true mystical science, that really matters. I let myself get caught up in the game when I geologise.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.

Plato was a bore.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

No man was ever wise by chance.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

The time is always right to do what is right.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God’s Will, united in spirit and in aim.

Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.

If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn’t us. Don’t be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

There’s no one thing that is true. They’re all true.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

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

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

Wisdom is found only in truth.