When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in theservice of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I amafraid.

To teach isto learn twice.

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the better joy, responsibility.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

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

Buying ischeaper than asking.