An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

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 onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Luck never mad a mad man wise

By being pleasant always and smiling, it takes you nearer to God; Nearer than any prayer.

Thereis all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

It isthe acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancorleft behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

Voilence is a Just when kindness is vain

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

Thesearch for someone to blame is always successful.