Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
In the end, religion teaches us to value truth, justice and freedom.
Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.
I believe in that connection between freedom and the city.
The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.
But there is some way in which poets believe that and this is dangerous, too believe that their calling gives them a certain freedom. A certain freedom to live in a free way.
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.
Well, I think it's too early to call Fallujah a failure.
Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.
Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.
Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.
People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.
