Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use them.

A hero is no braver than anyone else; he is only brave minutes longer

Better hazard than always be in fear.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

Silenceis argument carried out by other means.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

An artist is only a very small part of the universe and should receive no more attention than any other thing on earth which provides us with beauty, happiness and plenty

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.