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

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Toeffectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the waywe perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to ourcommunication with others.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

Donot wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.

When you ask from a stranger that which is of interest only to yourself, always enclose a stamp

The Truly free man is one who know how to decline an invitation without giving an excuse.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Every man has the right to feel that "Because of me was the world created".