We don’t have to let extremists define us.

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see – or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

Everything is generated through your own will power.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

There is only one ‚retirement plan‘ for terrorists.

I’m nobody, who are you?

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

People have told me, ‚You shouldn’t bring your daughter onto the podium, ‚cause it’s the workplace,‘ and things like that. But I’m not gonna really listen to that. I’m gonna do what I think is fun for me and my family, and everything’ll be all right.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.

We are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming far too much.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

Young people can create beautiful things.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.

We do not need the empire to give us anything.

I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they’ll do wonders. I count on them.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‚I’m possible‘!

Over the holidays, and even during filming, I realized that I actually like my body, even if it’s not perfect according to the book. I just feel sexy. For the first time, I don’t want to get rid of the curves. I just want to tone it up. My body is comfortable, and it’s not unhealthy, so I’m going to rock with it.

Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society.

My heart aches for America and its deceived people.

We talk about this concept of openness and transparency as the high-level ideal that we’re moving towards at Facebook. The way that we get there is by empowering people to share and connect. The combination of those two things leads the world to become more open.

What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

We should pass the U.N.’s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don’t. We need to delink terrorism from religion – to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and religion.

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.

Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.

A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.

My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.

If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don’t see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

There are a lot of good women in New York.

If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

I walk tall; I got a tall attitude.

I’ve never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn’t feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you’ve got to work as hard as them.

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

The voice I use is a very old hardware speech synthesizer made in 1986. I keep it because I have not heard a voice I like better and because I have identified with it.

I don’t know who I would have been if I never watched MotoGP.

You know, when you don’t go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly ‚in the know,‘ start whispering that you’re gay. If I were gay, I wouldn’t be ashamed to admit it, but I’m not.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

I’m a child of God first. Before I became a celebrity, I was baptized a Christian.

It’s hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?

The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.

A gender line… helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.