The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

Analysis kills spontaneity.The grain once ground to floor,springs and germinates no more.

If twopeople on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If theydisagree all the time, then both are useless.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Silenceis argument carried out by other means.

Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning tosee things from the plant's point of view.

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

Don't let life discourage your, everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.