The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

You made your bed, now lie in it.

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist

Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Dig a well before you are thirsty.

Onemust talk little and listen much.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-voilent structure of society.