Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.
We make all these plans about how things will turn out. But life happens. Plans change. So we doubt. We draw on strength we didn't know we had. We give up any allusions of control. And we deal head on with problems that come our way.
Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Love is about giving freedom and power, not about gaining control or possession.
The forces of freedom and choice will always triumph against the forces of conformity and control.
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
If everyone who had a gun just shot themselves, there wouldn't be a problem.