To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.

There are only two races (and they are not distinguished by color): those who are free and those who are not.

My intent is to tell the truth as I know it, realizing that what is true for me may be blasphemy for others.

Nothing in the world is as fearsome as a bloody, battered opponent who will never surrender.

Our willingness to openly reveal our feelings in our argument nearly always builds our credibility.

The erosion of a nation's concern for life and for individual rights, has always preceded the intrusion of tyranny.

The people of a nation are enslaved when, together, they are helpless to institute effective change, when the people serve the government more than the government serves them.

The best antidote for crime is justice. The irony we often fail to appreciate is that the more justice people enjoy, the fewer crimes they commit. Crime is the natural offspring of an unjust society.

The gift of self cannot be given to us. It is an incomparable gift that has already been given. We have possessed it from the beginning.

Faced with the pain of freedom, man begs for his shackles.

When we acknowledge the kingdom of the self, we will no longer accept slavery either for ourselves or for others, no matter how it is disguised.

It was well to be Martha and serve, but better to be Lazarus and commune.

I keep saying that I had everything, but all I had was endless tomorrows.

Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career.

It's almost embarrassing to go back into my liberal background because it was about as shallow a belief system as humanly possible.

Wonderful to see with the whole family. It's like travelling from dynasty to dynasty, from one Chinese region to another.

None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.

We are never in search of things, but always in search of the search.

I said to myself that I shall try to make my life like an open fireplace, so that people may be warmed and cheered by it and so go out themselves to warm and cheer.

Im a transactional lawyer; I negotiate all types of things, but with a particular focus in software licenses.

When at length we tire of putting people down, this self-inflicted fatigue can give way to the invigorating calisthenics of lifting people up.