Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

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

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

Artists can color the sky red because they know its blue.those of us who are not artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we are stupid.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

My greenthumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to seethings from the plant's point of view.

.Oneshould count each day a separate life.

In art, as in love, instinct is enogh.

Don'twrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.