Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

Since God created the world, He also created reality.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

I was a little girl in World War II and I’m used to being freed by Americans.

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

It’s normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self’s agenda.

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don’t always agree with them.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I’m still fanatical, but now I’m a little less fanatical.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

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

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

There’s a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you’re self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn’t so easy in a car, and you can’t cover as much ground walking.

A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.

I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

Sometimes when you’ve had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you’ve already had.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

I have never felt that the one thing that I am ‚known for‘ is what I am.

Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.

I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be ‚sexy,‘ even before I knew what the word was.

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

I kinda live where I find myself.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

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

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

My music seems to have a bigger mission than I have, which is very soothing but also very strange because people see more in me than I see, which can be terrifying.

The single most powerful thing I can be is to be myself.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror – and America is honored to be their friend.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

My lectures, based on Islamic teachings, were on various subjects. Some of the titles were, ‚The Intoxication of Life,‘ ‚The Purpose of Life,‘ ‚The Real Cause of Man’s Distress,‘ ‚The Journey to the Goal in Life,‘ and, one of my favorites, ‚The Heart of Man.‘ They contained important insights that spoke to something deep inside me.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

What it’s like to be me? You know, it’s good to be me. My life is good.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

What you are comes to you.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

You’ve got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don’t like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don’t like to be shaped by society.

When your physical energy and mind combines, it’s great.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

I grew up in a funny way.