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

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

No onewould talk much in society; if he knew how often he misunderstands others.

Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.

Man show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.

COURAGE IS THE FLEEING FORWARD.

Money is what things run into and people run out of

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

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.