No man is free who is not master of himself.

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

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

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

I’m gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we’re not being controlled, we’ll just do what we want.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

I don’t even know how to speak up for myself, because I don’t really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it… I can resist everything but temptation.

In too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and seen only as objects of fear. Through initiatives like My Brother’s Keeper, I’m personally committed to changing both perception and reality.

One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

I think I should learn French and be a better cook – basic, really good life stuff.

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Fortunately we’re not a public company – we’re a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.

If you’re too big to fit into fashion, then you just have to do your own fashion.

The first quality that is needed is audacity.

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?

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

Empire and liberty.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

I thought I couldn’t make a difference because I was too small.

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‚I’m a representative.‘

To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching.

Begin with the end in mind.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

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

I don’t mind living in a man’s world as long as I can be a woman in it.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That’s how you know you’re still alive.

Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.

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

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 want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

‚Your Erroneous Zones’ was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

If you deserve it, go get it.

I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.