Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the better joy, responsibility.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

You can't unscramble an egg.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

It'swhen you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather than competitive goals.

Thesubconscious part in us is called the subjective mind, because it does notdecide and command. It is subject rather than a ruler. Its nature is to dowhat it is told, or what really in your heart of hearts you desire.

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

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Nomatter how thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.