It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

Youdon't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there. Anonymous Agood deal is a state of mind.

A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

The World is but, a school of inquiry.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

Afanatic is a person who can’t change his mind and won’t change.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

Whenpeople say women can’t be trusted because they cycle every month, myresponse is that men cycle every day, so they should only be allowed tonegotiate peace treaties in the evening.

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

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.