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

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

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

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Right now, we don’t have a very good relation with creation.

The mixed martial arts way of life will give you focus.

Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn’t feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

My fans don’t feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I’m going through now, they’ll hear about it on a record someday. They’ll hear the real story. There’s a little bit of lag time. It’s not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it’s much more accurate.

There have been times that I’ve wept as I’ve gone from city to city and I’ve seen how far people have wandered from God.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

He who is brave is free.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

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.

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

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.

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.

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.

One of the reasons I connect to the Super Bowl is that I approach my shows like an athlete.

I think I have the nicest fans in the world, and I quite like being surrounded by people if we’re all feeling the same emotion in the same room.

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

In military school, on day one you must memorize the mission of the Merchant Marine Academy.

For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.

The ultimate connection is when you are connected to the creator of the universe.

Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God’s word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin – and it’s gonna happen – confession puts us back on the field.

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.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

It is normal to give away a little of one’s life in order not to lose it all.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

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.

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.

The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes – or just by staring into space.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

Only the educated are free.

Good order is the foundation of all things.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

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

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

Sometimes I’m a bit under-aggressive and sometimes a bit over. But I think it’s good to have both.

I groan daily under a body of sin and corruption. Oh for the time when I shall drop this flesh, and be free from sin!

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.