Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

Silenceis a true friend that never betrays.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

Liberty and democracy becomes unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

Prepareby knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number ofvariables you can work with during the negotiation... you need to have a walkaway... a combination of price, terms, and deliverables that represents theleast you will accept. Witho

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude-roots that can be pulled up.

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.