The rulers must be watched, not the ruled.

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

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.