Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.

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.

There's nothing more beautiful than authenticity. There's nothing stronger than vulnerability. There's no better time than now.

I can’t imagine anything worse than being required to have fun.

There is moderation even in excess.

It is trust, but it is also courage - that you can leave an individual to his own devices and say "explore and experiment" and think, "It's okay, I'll see what it sounds like when I come back."

It is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do: good Christians content themselves with His will revealed in His Word.

In a true democracy everyone can be upper class and live in Connecticut.

With government deregulation and the triumph of financial liberalization, the dangers of systemic risks, the possibility of a financial tsunami, sharply increased.

I'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful.

I try so hard to be the best mom that I can be and usually I'm always thinking about how to better my son's life.

I have made 70 or so films. In all my films not a single actor, a single extra, was hurt. Not one. So statistics are on my side when I say I'm clinically sane.