A liberdade é uma sensação. Por vezes pode-se esperá-la, fechado numa gaiola como um pássaro.

Não é livre quem não tem inteligência suficiente para adquirir ou defender a liberdade.

A liberdade custa muito caro e temos ou de nos resignarmos a viver sem ela ou de nos decidirmos a pagar o seu preço.

Não há direito de exigir consciência a quem se nega liberdade.

A liberdade não consiste só em seguir a sua própria vontade, mas às vezes também em fugir dela.

Mas onde se deve procurar a liberdade é nos sentimentos. Esses é que são a essência viva da alma.

A liberdade é um bem comum, e se todos não desfrutam dela, não serão livres nem os que se julgam como tal.

Enquanto a maioria dos homens não for livre, não se pode conceber o homem livre.

A liberdade, como a felicidade, é nociva para um e útil para outro.

Defendei a vossa liberdade, mas estimai a dos outros.

A liberdade é a possibilidade do isolamento. Se te é impossível viver só, nasceste escravo.

Desejo tanto que respeitem a minha liberdade que sou incapaz de não respeitar a dos outros.

A exigência de liberdade é uma exigência de poder.

A liberdade é, antes de tudo, o direito à desigualdade.

A maior parte dos males e misérias dos homens provêm, não da falta de liberdade, mas do seu abuso e demasia.

É livre a pessoa se pode avançar abertamente sem ter de utilizar artimanhas.

Liberdade significa responsabilidade, é por isso que a maioria das pessoas a teme.

A felicidade é parecida com a liberdade, porque toda a gente fala nela e ninguém a goza.

Não é livre o homem que não se governa a si mesmo; a liberdade existe na proporção do autodomínio equilibrado.

Para conservar a liberdade, a morte, que é o último dos males, não deve recear-se.

I have never been insecure, ever, about how I look, about what I want to do with myself. My mum told me to only ever do things for myself, not for others.

Just know that as long as your family thinks you're amazing, then you really are amazing.

When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian society. Not only was there no poverty, divorce, racism, sexism, pollution, or violence in the world of 'The Giver'; there was also careful attention paid to language: to its fluency, precision, and power.

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

It's like, say, if you were a dog. You notice that you're getting old, and you look at your human and you think, 'Why isn't this human getting old?'... But now we're the human looking out and imagining a different human.

So if you're on tour for eight months, a year... or whatever it is you definitely don't want arguments and I'm happy to say that I've always had a really nice bunch of people around me all the time.

Riding a race bike is an art a thing that you do because you feel something inside.

This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.

Education is very important, and I understand that.

For a lot of the time I was in Berkeley, I was single. I was living in a kind of collegiate apartment by myself - it was like a protracted summer vacation. So at least in hindsight, I have gloomy emotions attached to Berkeley, whereas I started coming to New York because I was dating someone, and it was very exciting and romantic.

Carrying a concealed weapon is a sign of self-defense, self-protection, and I think it lowers crime.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

Traveling is difficult when you go for long stretches at a time, but you always come back refreshed, feeling that you've accomplished something. I'm on my knees before I go anywhere in this world.

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

I really focus on my jeans and sweaters for them to fit really well. There was a time that wasn't the case.

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or a new thing in an old way.

Many people have strong views on McDonald's.

The American Way is an amalgam of our compassion, our strengths, our failings and our attempts to build a better world, a more perfect union.

I've crashed my car three times.

In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the eight hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous overeating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die!

The Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to corporations.

The pollsters and pundits will keep trying to read voters' minds.

You can't please everyone... If you make a good movie, that's all that matters.

I've lived so deep under masks, my interior was built to satisfy me alone - I have lived almost 60 years alone, mentally, and quite content to have it so.