Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.

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

People who fight with fire usually end up with ashes.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

Search not a wound too deep lest thou maketh a new one.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

Fromlittle acorns mighty oaks do grow.

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

The comforter's head never aches.