You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go.Dr. Seuss
If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.George Orwell
I really get a smile that people think they have a right to even suggest how I give my money away. I have no mandate to give a dime to anybody.Peter B. Lewis
If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.Roger Waters
Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable us autonomously to seek that completion.Allan Bloom
I've never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life on someone else.Robert Smith
Each of you, as an individual, must pick your own goals. Listen to others, but do not become a blind follower.Thurgood Marshall
Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.Friedrich Nietzsche
It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.Oscar Wilde
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.Anais Nin
It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.Simone Weil
I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.Joseph Campbell
If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.Audre Lorde
The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.G.K. Chesterton
I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.Malcolm X
I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do.Jean-Jacques Rousseau
If your business depends on you, you don’t own a business, you have a job. And it’s the worst job in the world because you’re working for a lunatic.Michael E. Gerber
The greatest sign of success for a teacher… is to be able to say, ‘The children are now working as if I did not exist.’Maria Montessori