“Woman wants control, man self-control.”

We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.

For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.

Freedom is the opposite of necessity.

Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.

Give me matter and I will build a world out of it.

The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.

Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.

Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.

One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.

Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.

Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.

You cannot control everyone who dislikes you or has a negative opinion of you.

The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.

I just want women to always feel in control. Because we’re capable, we’re so capable.

Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.

Your reputation is in the hands of others. That’s what the reputation is. You can’t control that. The only thing you can control is your character.

If you don’t take control of your career, guess what? You’ll be stuck in the sunset watching the sunrise, I am thesunrise.

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.

It’s the responsibility of a president to lead by example and do everything in his power to get the pandemic under control.