One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Thecourts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputesbegins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternativemethods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

Untrained intelligence is as much of use as a bottle without an opener.

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

Reformers are those who educate people to appreciate the things they need.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the goodintentions of those who create it.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.