Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good and alike in excellence for these wish well alike to each other qua good and they are good in themselves.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

Many a person has held close throughout their entire lives two friends that always remained strange to one another because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity the other by difference.

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?

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.

A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness thinking of others first when you learn to live for others they will live for you.

In everyone's life at some time our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society.

People ask me if I ever thought of writing a children's book. I say 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book' but otherwise the idea of being conscious of who you're directing the story to is anathema to me because in my view fiction is freedom and any restraints on that are intolerable.

We live in a land like no other - a land of freedom and opportunity unparalleled on the face of the globe.

I was the youngest child and got a lot more freedom than my brother and sister. I used to wander doing my own thing under the radar but I didn't get in bad bad trouble.

I used to think that if I had success I would have freedom. But I have less freedom now than I've ever had. And what gives me satisfaction is not the jewelry and not the cars. What gives me satisfaction is doing things for others like children.

America has never seen itself as a national state like all others but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.

My name became known because I was one might say accidentally the target of state repression and because so many people throughout the country and other parts of the world organized around the demand for my freedom.

It's great to have the freedom to enjoy your work and not feel like you're leaving your other life behind.

Another hero was Tom Swift in the books. What he stood for the freedom the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children.

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?

Eventually I want to be a full-time mother who works occasionally - and being an actor you have that freedom.

If we want to talk about freedom we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.

Men like me who merely wish to establish political freedom will in such circumstances lose all their influence and others will get influence who may become dangerous to all established interests whatsoever.

American movies and music deliver themes of freedom innocence and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.

Freedom of expression is the matrix the indispensable condition of nearly every other form of freedom.