Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.