The greatest danger we face is not any particular kind of thought. The greatest danger we face is absence of thought.

Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas.

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.

The Bill of Rights was not written to protect governments from trouble. It was written precisely to give the people the constitutional means to cause trouble for governments they no longer trusted.

Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

History is organized memory, and the organization is all important!

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change.

If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent.

The Americans who framed our Constitution felt that without freedom of religion no other freedom counted.

History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, but if we are to report it at all we must impose some order upon it.

As soon as you start to tell yourself in your perception that you can't do something anymore, then your biological system will adjust to prove you right. You will not do what you think you can't do.

Regardless of what the tour pros think, golf is a rich and varied game, and what all of us awkward fools do on weekends is what golf is truly all about.

Love is the seed of all hope. It is the enticement to trust, to risk, to try, to go on.

Don't worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon.

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.

BJJ is like trying to solve a puzzle that keeps changing..so magnificent... yet completely humbling.

Worship isn't an event to attend & watch. It's a lifestyle to be lived.

The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye.

Only poetry can address grief.

There is too little courtship in the world.