One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

If you develop a pure and sincere motivation, in you are motivated by a wish to help on the basis of kindness, compassion, and respect, then you can carry on any kind of work, in any field, and function more effectively.

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule: never lie to yourself.

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!

You should respect each other and refrain from disputes; you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

We are all one family in the world. Building a community that empowers everyone to attain their full potential through each of us respecting each other's dignity, rights and responsibilities makes thee world a better place to live.

I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.

I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.

Diversity of opinion within the framework of loyalty to our free society is not only basic to a university but to the entire nation.

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what they are going to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.