Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Laughter is shortest distance between two people.

Forbidden fruit can get us into a real jam.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

Prayrer changes things by changing people.

Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.

What we seek we shall find, what we flee from flee from us.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.