The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?

No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow.

We call that person who has lost his father an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

When you choose your friends don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us we often find that it is those who instead of giving advice solutions or cures have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

When I was in jail I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.

Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.

Yes we have the freedom to do what we please but it only works because we don't do everything we might please - we should exercise some degree of personal and corporate responsibility.

How can you be conservative and justify wiretapping people without a warrant? We're supposed to be the party of personal freedom and civil liberties.

In short is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?

I stand for limited government fiscal responsibility personal freedom personal responsibility so the Republican Party will support me.

My daughters your daughters our daughters deserve safety protection and the freedom to make their own choices about their personal lives and their physical selves.

But I do believe that a woman's truest place is in a home with a husband and with children and with large freedom pecuniary freedom personal freedom and the right to vote.

I loved the feeling of freedom in running the fresh air the feeling that the only person I'm competing with is me.

I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist because I believed in personal freedom.

Personal technology has given us the freedom of being able to do whatever we want - and in the case of celebrities and athletes whomever they want. But it can also serve as a humiliation jetpack.

They have the ability to take a person's freedom from them. On certain situations they have the ability to take a person's reputation. And under certain circumstances they have the authority to take a person's life.

I've got personal views on the '60s. You can't have freedom without paying the price for it.

But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it.

To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous but to criticize their religion that is a right. That is a freedom.

Remove advertising disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.

I'm a multidimensional person and that's the freedom of fashion: that you're able to reinvent yourself through how you dress and how you cut your hair or whatever.

A lot of people out there pay good lip service to the idea of personal freedom... right up to the point that someone tries to do something that they don't personally approve of.

To me the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.