Actually I always dreamed about getting a gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle in Olympic swimming. I always thought that would be the epic award in sports to get.

While I will always have the utmost respect for the superhuman out-of-bounds freestyle and extreme stunts that seem to continually progress beyond our imaginable limits my highest appreciation goes out to the simple rider who's out there just for the experience.

The first breath of adultery is the freest after it constraints aping marriage develop.

But the egoist has no ideals for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest not for the interest of ideals.

All my life Americans have been accustomed to thinking of theirs as 'the richest freest' country in the world. By most measurements it was long a contender for that honor and - among the larger countries if equal weight were given to wealth and indices of freedom - probably did deserve to be so described.

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains always was.

As a result of America's efforts to realize the ideals of equality and freedom blacks in America are now the freest and richest black people anywhere on the face of the earth including all of the nations that are ruled by blacks.

A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class race time place background family and even his nation.

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works but each one launches another. Every constraint even dullness frees up a new design.

There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.