it is better to inspire a reform than to enforce it.
You don't have to write to me if you don't feel like it. There's no real friendship without absolute freedom.
True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to.
A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.
Corruption never has been compulsory.
I don't think it's bribery; I think it's extortion. Bribery, you know, is when the person that's giving the money does it voluntarily. What it is in Washington is extortion because they all ask for the money.
There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.
Wickedness is a kind of voluntary frenzy, and a chosen distraction.
If someone takes responsibility without force, that is love.
A wise man does nothing by constraint.
Nothing that is totally voluntary that is painful, ever works.
When you're independent, you're with somebody because you want to be there not because you feel like you have to be there.
One of the grandest things in having rights is, that though they are your rights you may give them up
Remember that mindsets can not be changed through force and coercion. No idea can ever be forcibly thrust upon any one.
All my life, I thought of love as some kind of voluntary enslavement. Well, that's a lie: freedom only exists when love is present. The person who gives him or herself wholly, the person who feels freest, is the person who loves most wholeheartedly.
It's a crazy game. It's a game we all choose to play.
Kindness is more powerful than compulsion.
No one will be forced to take the public option. The word option means choice.
Learning is not compulsory; it's voluntary... But to survive, we must learn.
Ignorance is a voluntary condition.
Yogi Berra put it best, "If people don't want to come, we can't stop them."
I can perform whenever I want to, without the pressure of having to.
There are a lot of mysterious things about boats, such as why anyone would get on one voluntarily.
Learning is not compulsory; it's voluntary. Improvement is not compulsory; it's voluntary. But to survive, we must learn.
Some strangers become more important to you than family, maybe because you're not expected to love them. You can leave them whenever you want to. They can, too. Every moment together is a choice.
