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,

Thereis no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate whata thing is worth to 'you.'

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

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

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

The strongest is never strong enough to be always, the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Evil alone has oil for every wheel