Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or good or joy worth having.

He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation.

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

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

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.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.

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

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what they are going to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

Freedom is to be free from restraint and violence from others.

Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.

Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

To change your mind and to follow him who sets you straight is to be nonetheless the free agent that you were before.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly two be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.

Some people’s idea of free speech is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage.

As I walked out the door to my freedom I knew that, if I did not leave all the anger, hatred and resentment behind, I would remain a prisoner.

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs, but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason.

A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.

Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.

The positive thinker see the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieve the impossible.

The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible. Then they seem improbable. And then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

The day will soon come when I will show the world that the transmission of power and speech without the aid of any wires is possible.

Man is a universe in little.

What signifies knowing the names, if you know not the nature of things?

The higher you soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

There is nothing in the world that empowers a human being to overcome external difficulties or internal hardships so much as the awareness that one has a task in life.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it continues the true source of national vigor and strength. Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.