It is necessary to grow accustomed to freedom before one may walk in it sure-footedly.

Anyone who has not known that inestimable privilege can possibly realize what good fortune it is to grow up in a home where there are grandparents.

What its children become, that will the community become.

No human being, man, woman, or child, may safely be entrusted to the power of another; for no human being may safely be trusted with absolute power.

There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.

Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word "human."

the desire to enforce our own moral and spiritual criteria upon posterity is quite as strong as the desire to enforce them upon contemporaries.

People never move towards revolution; they are pushed towards it by intolerable injustices in the economic and social order under which they live.

All political and religious systems have their root and their strength in the innate conservatism of the human mind, and its intense fear of autonomy.

A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

Some actors come to the set ready to do their parts a certain way.

Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.

Historically, in my generation, all of my heroes and heroines have had issues and problems. We all do.

When asked "If you could meet any famous person living or dead," I always ask whether the dead person would be alive again when I meet them.

I have sold my soul to the devil.

I could happily lie down and die sometimes.

It's not too bad to be a sort of pop icon, you know? It's not too tough to handle.