Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

We all owe death a life.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

There is also this benefit in brag: that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

The more I see, the less I know for sure.

Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

There's place and means for every man alive.

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.