A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

Frustration is commonly the difference between what you would like to be and what you are willing to become what you would like to be.

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

Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.

Goodcommunication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleepafter.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.