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

Thespirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

If youcould kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

One of the difficult things to give away is kindness - is usually returned

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

The problem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom