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

Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

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

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Truthsprings from argument amongst friends.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

The present is never a happy state to any being

Takeyour life into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, notof words. Trust movement.

Silenceis the ultimate weapon of power.

Speak whenyou are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.