The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

The only way to deal with a unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

If someone is too perfect they won’t look good. Imperfection is important.

Sometimes we strive so hard for perfection that we forget that imperfection is happiness.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

All men have their frailties; and whoever looks for a friend without imperfections, will never find what he seeks.

I think every single imperfection adds to your beauty. I’d rather be imperfect than perfect.

Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn’t perfection but progress.

Life is not always perfect. Like a road, it has many bends, ups and down, but that’s its beauty.

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except the best.