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.

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fire actions than in the non-preformance of base ones.

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

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

We donot have to agree; we do need to understand.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country