Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

If wecannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.

Man is born free, and everywhere is is in chains

A goodlistener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

Are youreally listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?

A miserand a liar bargain quickly.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Hearme, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.