It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires.

People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.

Freedom is the power to choose our own chains

The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?

Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.

I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.

No one is happy unless he respects himself.

Ambition destroys its possessor.

The more you are blessed with experience, the fuller and the more enriched you are in your craft.

I am very proud of the fact I do not cheat when I'm playing golf.

It may look like we're doing nothing when we sit zazen. But actually we are exposing ourselves to ourselves.

If you ask any driver about their first trip to New York, it's always crazy.

There's a difference between silence meaning agreement and being silenced.

I will never give up politics. I've tried to give it up three times, but I never made it. Politics mobilizes me. I won't last long if I give it up.

I'm Mitt Romney-and yes Wolf, that's also my first name.

Choose your agent as carefully as you would choose your accountant or lawyer. Or dentist.

We choose to believe that the granite is alive. If life is movement, then rock - with its atoms flying around like stars in cosmos - is alive.