Easy for them to keep their youth who will never learn a lesson.

The reason why I hated school so intensely [was that] it interfered with my freedom.

It’s a good thing when you don’t dare do something if you don’t think it’s right. But it’s not good when you think something’s not right because you don’t dare do it.

No one and nothing can harm us, child, except what we fear and love.

All my days I have longed equally to travel the right road and to take my own errant path.

All things that a man owns hold him far more than he holds them.

One cannot escape dogmas—those who hold most firmly to dogmas today are those whose only dogma is that dogmas should be feared like the plague.

The morality code that remains after the religion that produced it is rejected is like the perfume that lingers in an empty bottle.

Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate.

I went to work in an office and learned, among other lessons, to do things I did not care for, and to do them well. Before I left this office, two of my books had already been published.

I hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom. I avoided the discipline by an elaborate technique of being absent-minded during classes.

I want to take ye to bed. In my bed. And I mean to spend the rest of the day thinking what to do wit ye once I got ye there. So wee Archie can just go and play at marbles with his bollucks, aye?

A good marriage does not require a perfect man or a perfect woman. It only requires a man and a woman committed to strive together toward perfection.

When we rise above our temptations and resist them, we exercise self-control. And that's when we experience true freedom and emotional health.

I know a good woman who thinks that her son lost his life because he took to drinking water only.

That is a trial I must face," Veka said. "No, that is a multiheaded snake thing, Jig snapped.

No one tells you what to do if you completely flop at the beginning of a performance.

I mean I like to be passionate and sincere but I also like to have fun and act like a dork.

I saw with open eyes, Singing birds sweet, Sold in the shops, For the people to eat, Sold in the shops of, Stupidity Street.

Most people are poor not because they are not smart - most people are poor or struggle financially because they're fearful of losing.

Political freedom, as the Western world has known it, is only a political reading of the Bible.