Negotiation is best when both parties win.

Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.

We don't point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.

No problem is so deep that it cannot be overcome, given the will of all parties, through discussion and negotiation rather than force and violence.

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

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.

Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to allow his vision wherever it takes him.

Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever.

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 right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

...the individual ceases to be himself; he adopts entirely the kind of personality offered to him by cultural patterns; and he therefore becomes exactly as all others are and as they expect him to be...The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.

Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

Why has government been instituted? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason & justice without constraint.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.