If one has never known freedom, it is easy to be blind to the gridirons composing one’s cell.

The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves. To fast is to identify our dependencies, and free ourselves from them.

I’m very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that.

It is in all our interests that the arteries of global trade are kept free, open and running.

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. It is far better to be free, to leave the forts and barricades of fear, to stand erect and face the future with a smile. It...

Change is not always a good thing. What I need is not change from one thing to another but transformation from who I am into who I was meant to become. Only when God’s transforming...

I was not born to be free—I was born to adore and obey.

Him that I love, I wish to be free — even from me.

Romeo Must Die was the first film that I did where I was able to just be free as an actor.

That generation of Germans, along with volunteers from Denmark, Holland, even England and the Free India division and so on, we Europeans were alert and awake to the danger of Bolshevism.

I am running and singing and when it’s raining I’m the only one left on the open street, smiling with my eyes fixed on the sky because it’s cleaning me. I’m the one on the...

There is no way around the contradictions and dangers inherent in Israel’s decision to free over 1,000 prisoners in order to liberate Gilad Shalit.

One day between takes on the ‘Oz’ set, I went into one of the cells and laid down and dozed off. When I woke up, I thought I was back in a federal pen. But...

Branding jails corporate America, but honesty sets entrepreneurs free.

With nearly 20 days until Iraq emerges as a free sovereign state for the first time in more than three decades, terrorists have increasingly targeted our country’s infrastructure.

Metrics are not a device for restraining the mad, any more than ‘open form’ or free verse is a prairie where a man can do all kinds of manly things in a state of wholesome...

Since nothing is free, to each his price.

Only one wish I have, and that is to die a happy man.

If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?

There are two metaphors for Mario the person and not Mario the footballer. I think I am a man, but I don’t believe I need to say it. But I could also be Peter Pan...

In Iran, people are free to express their views. Every day, some people criticize the policies of the government.

Life calls the tune, we dance.

We have the opportunity to pour into them what they were created to be; and pullout the treasure that they cannot yet see.

I’m a safety – I play free, strong, whatever you ask me to play.

While I am a fervent believer in free markets and limited government, there are rare instances in which government involvement is necessary.

White men have always controlled their wives’ wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages.

That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats...

Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse...

Only a free West can help the prisoners of today’s left- and right-wing dictatorships.

The most elusive and ultimately impossible act of liberation is freedom from sin and self, and no document or declaration of man regardless of how exquisitely penned can do that. Such an astonishing act of...

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind — that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done...

University of California students can look forward to the same authoritarian management style Secretary Napolitano brought to the Department of Homeland Security, hardly a bastion of free speech and open government.

You are a lamp to give light to people; you must mount the lamp stand and shine bright! Don’t hide your gifts; expose and share them freely!

I wear the universe backwards. I imagine putting stars in my coffee, and sugar in the sky. I imagine going fishing in clouds, and watching the sun hide behind lakes. I’m too busy dancing with...

The tasteof rain– Why kneel?

I would say that I quite consciously rely on my obsessions in all my work, that I deliberately set up an obsessional frame of mind. In a paradoxical way, this leaves one free of the...

If I owned a t-shirt shop, I would honor Eli Whitney by putting his face on a t-shirt made from 100% cotton. FREE admission if you’re topless.

Torture fails to make us safe, but it certainly makes us less free.

I love Shark Week, where all kids under 12 swim for free

Why is it,” she asked, snuggling closer, “that I so often imagine myself running away and running free?

The soul, cramped among the petty vexations of Earth, needs to keep its windows constantly open to the invigorating air of large and free ideas: and what thought is so grand as that of an...

The Obama administration deserves credit for quickly ending the housing free fall. In particular, Obama empowered the Federal Housing Administration to ensure that households could find mortgages at low interest rates even during the worst...

To break free from this vexatious and awful never-ending cycle, this flood of outrageous thoughts, and to long for nothing more than simply to sleep–how clean, how pure, the mere thought of it is exhilarating.

My obligation as president, and what I promise the country, is that the courts will be able to do their job free of all pressure.

I used to have to save my allowances to buy a quart of rubber to make a mask, and it’s how I spent all my free time.

I write music when I’m free and for no particular project in mind.

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free… so other people would be also free.

I maintain an ongoing survey of Internet Publishing and self publishing, so that it is now possible for any writer with a book to get it published at nominal cost or free, and to have...

The more material we lose, the less we have. The less we have, the more we win.

Fear is for the powerless. Fear is for the alone. But as you stand together now, you are neither of those. Together, you amplify each other’s strengths; you nullify each other’s weaknesses.