Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

Instinct is a marvellous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

Intelligence is a moral category.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

For we walk by faith, not by sight

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

None but ourselves can free our minds.