Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Manyspeak much who cannot speak well.

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

Snap judgment has a way of becoming unfastened.

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. -Will Rogers

Necessitynever made a good bargain.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.