Was die Menschen täglich ihre Entscheidungen nennen, ist nichts weiter als ein gut einstudiertes Spiel.

... privilege was obligation; command was service; power, the gift itself, entailed a heavy loss of freedom.

It's none of your concern what others say or think about you. Your happiness is your own responsibility.

You can either complain about how hard your life is, or you can realize that only you are responsible for it.

I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything.

Every social ethic is doomed to failure if it is blind to personal responsibility" (The Ten Commandments, 10).

Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck."[On Water]

Writing without responsibility is like taking out your cloths in public and begging people to not look at you.

Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.

Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them.

Even if you love a lady, don't say you will take care of her while someone else is catering for your needs.

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

There is no client as scary as an innocent man."J. Michael Haller, Criminal Defense Attorney, Los Angeles, 1962.

The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.

We owe our children – the most vulnerable citizens in any society – a life free from violence and fear.