The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt.

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.

A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself

All around the world, we send our top talent into finance, technology, medicine and law - everywhere but towards expanding opportunity for our most marginalized children.

I don't want to write without a sense of drama, without passion, or without both eyes open to the world around me.

[a] heavy sense of guilt [is] the most potent factor in the whole psychologic picture of motherliness.

If the right thing came along at the right time, it would be an enormous kind of challenge.

This is how we are protecting you, by getting you out.

Any time I see anything moving onstage, I'm cautious about it.

Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt at being told that it is a fragment awaiting perfection.

How can I have morning sickness when I don't get up till noon?

A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.