“Restrain expectations to restrict regrets.”

“A tedium that includes the expectation of nothing but more tedium; a regret, right now, for the regret I’ll havetomorrow for having felt regret today – huge confusions with no point and no truth, huge confusions…”

“Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.”

“The veil deliberately marks women as private and restricted property, nonpersons. The veil sets women apart from men and apart from the world; it restrains them, confines them, grooms them for docility. A mind can be cramped just as a body may be, and a Muslim veil blinkers both your vision and your destiny. It is the mark of a kind of apartheid, not the domination of a race but of a sex.”

“Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling.And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire.”

“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.”