The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

Freedom cannot be granted. It must be taken.

Whoso is full of sacred (religious, moral, humane) love loves only the spook, the "true man," and persecutes with dull mercilessness the individual, the real man.

We don't call it sin today, we call it self-expression.

Religion itself is without genius. There is no religious genius and no one would be permitted to distinguish between the talented and the untalented in religion.

My power is my property. My power gives me property. My power am I myself, and through it am I my property.

If it is right for me, it is right. It is possible that it is wrong for others: let them take care of themselves!

A race of altruists is necessarily a race of slaves. A race of free men is necessarily a race of egoists.

Whoever is a complete person does not need to be an authority.

He who is infatuated with Man leaves persons out of account so far as that infatuation extends, and floats in an ideal, sacred interest. Man, you see, is not a person, but an ideal, a spook.

People who regularly abuse power don't like being laughed at'.

I was never the girl who tore pictures out of wedding magazines.

Ice burns, and it is hard to the warm-skinned to distinguish one sensation, fire, from the other, frost.

The story of a mother's life: Trapped between a scream and a hug.

We gain or strengthen a testimony by bearing it.

I like when you can have a conversation with people and it's not just stock questions.

Wall Street is the only factor in the U.S. economy, which really keeps Obama still in office. He couldn't have made it, otherwise.

Consistency is the death of good acting.

In two years, I'll be making more than Michael Schumacher.

I think it's a fantastic thing to be alive.