Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.

But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.

I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

More is lost by indecision than wrong decision.

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Individuals are the sum of their unique experiences, challenges, and accomplishments. What matters is not the barriers they face, but how they choose to confront them. And their race is not to blame for everything—good or bad—that happens in their lives.

You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions.

Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

Our life does not develop as a result of chance, but as a result of causes.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.

Let us remind ourselves that it is ordinary people – men and women, boys and girls – that make the world a special place.

What I wanted was to be allowed to do the thing in the world that I did best, which I believed then and believe now, is the greatest privilege there is. When I did that, success found me.

Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burned women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

Some people are so used to special treatment that equal treatment is considered to be discrimination.

The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.

The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

No man on earth is truly free. All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact—it is silence which isolates.

Either you will control your government, or government will control you.

Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.