Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. You cannot control

Is there no spiritual freedom in regard to behavior and reaction to any given surroundings? Is that theory true which would have us believe that man is no more than a product of many conditional and environmental factors—be they of a biological, psychological or sociological nature?

There is nothing conceivable which would so condition a man as to leave him without the slightest freedom. Therefore, a residue of freedom, however limited it may be, is left to man in neurotic and even psychotic cases. Indeed, the innermost core of the patient's personality is not even touched by a psychosis.

everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

It is this spiritual freedom—which cannot be taken away—that makes life meaningful and purposeful.

There was no freedom in life, and certainly there was none in death…

Well, I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married.

Freedom and fullness of expression are of the essence of the art.

Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play.

Yes, but I still resent the usual order. I will not let myself be made yet to accept the sequence of things. I will walk; I will not change the rhythm of my mind by stopping, by looking; I will walk.

The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.

I only ask to be free, the butterflies are free.