Not in the flight of ideas, but only in action is freedom. Make up your mind and come out into the tempest of the living.

Be wary of those propagating too much about liberty, ideology, and civility; they just might be oppressors in the making.

Der Präventionsstaat muss [...] dem Bürger immer mehr Freiheiten nehmen, um ihm dafür Sicherheit zu geben.

If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the Present lacks.

We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything, than when we are at play.

Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.

Brīvība ir tik dārga manta, ka pat vismazāko kripatiņu no tās negribētos atdot citiem.

Forgiveness of sins is great, but I'd rather have the ability to quit doing the things I keep needing forgiveness for.

I don’t want to know what time it is. I don’t want to know what day it is or where I am. None of that matters.

What if "redemption" means not only freeing yourself from what you've done, but also from what's been done to you?

Some tourist think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a ciry of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

Say what you wish about media in the Arab world, but say it knowing that no media channel in the world is absolutely free.

Your life have to be filled with interesting tales that it should not bore your grandchildren, when you tell them someday.

Trade and money, which go together in a stream of energy, inevitably wash away the enclosing walls of a society of status.

I can see the young man on dizzily autumn mornings, the fog of which he inhaled just like the rapidly evaporating freedom.