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

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.

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

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.

If you write an original, it's like you went in and dug a well, and you hit oil. But an adaptation, it's like the oil well's on fire, and they bring you in to put the fire out and get it working again - or something like that.

I only wanted to get married once, so when I felt I was ready to handle it, I looked at my relationships and noticed that boyfriends get tired of girlfriends, and vice versa, but you never get tired of your friends.

The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.

This is a really big space station. We do a lot of various kinds of work here, different kinds of science experiments; we have over 400 different experiments going on at any one time in different areas, from basic science research to medical technology, that hopefully will benefit more people on Earth.

Our success in Singapore was a Herculean effort by the whole team. Now I am determined to deliver on all we promised. I will be watching like a hawk.

Some of us will admit to a simple fascination with the inner world for its own sake a fascination with no further goal than the thrill of discovery the pleasure of engaging the mysterious dark ground of our own nature.

I'm more pompous and self-assured and determined that if - you know - if the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.

There's a joke that, if you can ride through Texas with somebody, which is 700 miles of just straight, flat freeway riding, then you can be friends with them forever.

When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are read in 57 languages. But I am focused on Istanbul not because of Istanbul but because of humanity. Everyone is the same in the end.

Celebrity culture, it's everywhere, isn't it? It's reality TV, Big Brother. I didn't become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didn't want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day?

Don’t stop dreaming just because you had a nightmare.

But he like my mother, had certainly come to know that those who work the most do not make the most money. It was the fault of the rich, it seemed, but just how he did not know.

And my mother fought hard for civil rights so that instead of a mop, I could hold this microphone.

So I just play the character, I play the lines.

Well, you know, it's been interesting because an album is just a snapshot of where you are at that time. Not all pictures of everybody are just in jeans and a 'T' shirt, or a ball gown. You have many different sides and this is a snapshot of where you are at that time.

You always bump into politics in life, and as a man, I'm party to a number of environmental issues that concern me first and foremost, as a man, as a father.

My music has to do with beauty, and it's intended to, if not lift the spirits, then be a kind of a balm to the spirits.

Sunday is a day of rest.

And the Tea Party represents many of us who believe that we are taxed enough already. We believe in free markets.

We will absolutely respect the law until we are in government at the national level and can change it.

A good relationship is based on a good friendship.

Some Iraqi troops aren't willing to fight for their government. But many Shiites appear willing to fight for their religious leaders.

I had piano lessons when I was younger, but I quit because I didn't want to sit and learn the scales.

If I settle a case out of court, it's because I love the person.