Johnny Carson Quotes

I leave you free to be yourself: to think your thoughts, indulge your tastes, follow your inclinations, behave in ways that you decide are to your liking.

I think the way I want to think. I live the way I want to live.

I was kind of raised with the suggestion that I had a duty to do; that life was real, life was earnest. And I hated that, actually. I needed to be liberated, to be told that I could live the life that I wanted to live; that I didn't need a job, or to be shouted at; that I could be myself; that I could be happy.

I can live my life, I can be at Disneyland and eat fried chicken, and that's my choice.

I want to be free to do what I right for me.

I do what I like to do.

I've lived a life that's full, I traveled each and ev'ry highway, And more, much more than this, I did it my way.

Love means each person is free to follow his or her own heart.

Let's let people live their lives and do it the way they want to do it.

As long as you're not hurting anyone, your choices are your choices.

Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

I go where I'm stimulated. If I'm stimulated, I show up. As Mick Jagger sings: It's my life and I'll do what I want.

Only on the surface of things have I ever trod the beaten path. So long as I could keep from hurting anyone else, I have lived, as completely as it was possible, the life of my choice. I have been free. . . . I have done the work I wished to do for the sake of that work alone.

I am my own person. What I'm doing, I'm happy with it. I'm doing what I want to.

Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.

I damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.

I have a right to live my life and just be me with whoever I choose. We just do the best we can.

I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.

Those who fear that we are losing our individualism couldn't be more wrong: Americans have never been more free to create and recreate themselves.

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

It's your life, live it your way.

The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do.

I'm doing what I want to do.

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you.