Freedom requires effort if it is to be won and vigilance if it is to be maintained. People just don't value freedom until it is taken away.

Knowing when to fight is just as important as knowing how.

In the darkest hours we must believe in ourselves.

Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.

Honor is honesty to what is, not blind duty to what you wish to be.

Free people were not ruled. Freedom had first to be valued before its existence could be demanded.

This was life as it should be lived—proud, reasoned, and a slave to no other man.

Character is what you do in the dark.

All the religions are true, they just see a different part of the elephant.

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

The most supreme beauty is that of the feminine; the source of all creativity. Even in my greatest despair, that realization alone restores my faith in God.

Ignorance, according to the Buddha, is our basic difficulty. Psychedelics and the process of aging make that clear to me all the time.

The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.

Historically, when a leader has deployed his own military against civilians, it's never been good. There's never been a time where it's ended well.

We've become to living with absurdity, and that to make people to see how much so, I had to ratchet up the insanity.

Truth like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold screenwriter of Dead Poets' Society.

If the actor has a problem, I can just go in and fix it right away. I think it speeds up the process.