To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

The problem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Nogarden is without its weeds.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

To copy is to put an end to creativeness. Unless there is originality, you can do nothing.

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

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,