Once I know people know who I am it gives me a lot of licence and freedom to behave in ways I wouldn't normally.

I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached which gives me a freedom I never had before.

But if you can create an honorable livelihood where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.

Love does not claim possession but gives freedom.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

One forgives to the degree that one loves.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

God gives every bird its food but He does not throw it into its nest.