So what oppresses and scares us? It is our own thoughts, obviously, What overwhelms people when they are about to leaves friends, family, old haunts and their accustomed way of life? Thoughts.

Don't put your purpose in one place and expect to see progress made somewhere else.

Freedom is not archived by satisfying desire, but by eliminating it.

Freedom, you see, is having events go in accordance with our will, never contrary to it.

And where there is ignorance, there is also want of learning and instruction in essentials.

We should realize that an opinion is not easily formed unless a person says and hears the same things every day and practises them in real life.

It isn't death, pain, exile or anything else you care to mention that accounts for the way we act, only our opinion about death, pain and the rest.

Just because someone stumbles and loses their path, doesn't mean they're lost forever.

I turned vegetarian after 9/11. A friend of mine came back from New York and said that he couldn't stand the smell of burnt flesh. It immediately reminded me of a barbecue.

Reading functions as hallucinating a meaning between letters and lines.

Faced with a choice between the survival of the planet and a new set of matching tableware, most people would choose the tableware.

Big occasions and races which have been eagerly anticipated almost to the point of dread, are where great deeds can be accomplished.

I love going out for any audition. I'm very professional, I study my stuff, I work on it, and even if I'm not right for the job, so what? I know I did my best.

I do not believe that it is possible to teach a cat to obey; that is contrary to his nature.

. . . Government should do only those things the people cannot do for themselves.

We already have immigration law, and it is being violated. Obama's executive amnesty is not the settled law. [Barak ] Obama's executive amnesty is outside the law, and that's why it's been stayed.

Do right! and thou hast naught to fear;Right hath a power that makes thee strong.The night is dark, but light is near;The grief is short, the joy is long.