There’s a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you’re self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn’t so easy in a car, and you can’t cover as much ground walking.

Fashion has become so whatever. I don’t think there are any stones left to unturn.

I think everyone should be with who they love.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

What’s important in Libya is, first of all, it has a good deal of oil. A lot of the country is unexplored; there may be a lot more. And it’s very high-quality oil, so very valuable.

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

I was a little girl in World War II and I’m used to being freed by Americans.

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.

I should like to save the Shire, if I could – though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them.

He who is brave is free.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.

You don’t have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

To be admitted to Nature’s hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

I’ve been here before and will come again, but I’m not going this trip through.

It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.

When exploring London, you will come across lots of excitement by chance, so try to take everything in rather than just rushing around to all of the major tourist haunts.

We can’t equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs.

For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn’t have to define you. It doesn’t have to limit you.

Aviation offered such fun as crossing the continent in planes large and small, trying the whirling rotors of an autogiro, making record flights. With these activities came opportunity to know women everywhere who shared my conviction that there is so much women can do in the modern world and should be permitted to do irrespective of their sex.

Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of time. And the telescope really did that. So now we know that there was once absolutely nothing, such a perfect nothing that there wasn’t even nothing or once.

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

If it’s illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!

We do not need the empire to give us anything.

With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I’ve come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.

Freedom is what everyone wants – to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.

There is no way I would ask others to go on a Virgin Galactic flight if I didn’t feel it was safe enough for myself.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience deprivation of freedom.

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.

I’ve experienced great things, I’ve experienced great tragedies. I’ve done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there’s more.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

If you had your life to live over again, do it overseas.

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror – and America is honored to be their friend.

We are a nation founded as a rebuke to tyranny. A nation of revolutionaries who refused sovereign reign from afar. Hear me – we’re a nation that says give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. A nation built on our differences, guided by the belief that we’re all created equal.

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

It is better to travel well than to arrive.

People want to go out and travel around and meet cool people. I could just go live in Vermont, but is that what I really want?

People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it’s cool.

I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles – the oppression of tyranny – to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

I found that part of it towards San Salvador extending from north to south five leagues, and the other side which we coasted along, ran from east to west more than ten leagues.

I just know that I’m a fan of all different kinds of genres. You’re supposed to be free doing music, and that’s how I feel.

The word ‚romance,‘ according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.