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

I’m not going to fight because I mean too much to our team, and I can’t afford to be suspended for a game or do something stupid to get me kicked out of a playoff game.

I could have spent eight years doing anything, and at some level, it would have been fine. I could have focused on flowers. I could have focused on decor. I could have focused on entertainment. Because any First Lady, rightfully, gets to define her role. There’s no legislative authority; you’re not elected. And that’s a wonderful gift of freedom.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

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

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.

Punk is musical freedom. It’s saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster’s terms, ‚nirvana‘ means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that’s pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

I have the space and liberty to create.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

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.

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

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom – along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them… may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.

All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

In the final choice a soldier’s pack is not so heavy as a prisoner’s chains.

Empire and liberty.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

We can’t allow the world’s worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world’s worst weapons.

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

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.

I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin‘ hell, but as long as they ain’t free, I ain’t free.

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

You can stroke people with words.

Freedom lies in being bold.

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn’t do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it’s a very healthy discipline.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

I have no problem yelling at anybody’s kid – free of charge!

Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.

I entered the diocesan seminary. I liked the Dominicans, and I had Dominican friends. But then I chose the Society of Jesus, which I knew well because the seminary was entrusted to the Jesuits. Three things in particular struck me about the Society: the missionary spirit, community and discipline.

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also… your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.

The thing that will never go away is that connection you make with a band or a song where you’re moved by the fact that it’s real people making music. You make that human connection with a song like ‚Let It Be‘ or ‚Long and Winding Road‘ or a song like ‚Bohemian Rhapsody‘ or ‚Roxanne,‘ any of those songs. They sound like people making music.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

Giving responsibility is the key to success with boys, especially with the rowdiest and most difficult boys.

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch – we are going back from whence we came.