Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of cancer cell.

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,

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Letevery eye negotiate for itself, and trust no agent.

You canoutdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

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

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.