Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.
True freedom is where an individual's thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor - no matter the personal price.
Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.
Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing.
Unfortunately, your reputation often rests not on your ability to do what you say, but rather on your ability to do what people expect.
Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it.
One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.
He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them.