The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

There is no wealth but life.

It’s pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable – and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.

While discipline and freedom seem like they sit on opposite sides of the spectrum, they are actually very connected.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

In every parting there is an image of death.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Empire and liberty.

In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.

What we live by we die by.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

All the time, I’ve felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn’t.

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.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

I wish I could say to all those people who consider themselves anarchists or radicals: Please join the nonviolent movement. This is how Gandhi freed India. If Gandhi freed India, we can certainly free the United States from our racism, misogyny, and bigotry.

America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.

The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.

All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

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

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

I’ve been fortunate to have had the life I had prior to Hollywood. I wasn’t starving; I was going to eat the next day.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

Every loss of life is terrible.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‚within the limits of the law‘ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

One day it will be over, and I don’t care.

You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.

Life is a song to me.

We are not actually equal – humanity – if we are not allowed to freely love one another.

My life has been very full.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.