For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. 

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

Disagreement is something normal.

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all. 

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

Peace is its own reward.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

You don't know what you can get away with until you try.