Don'tbargain for fish which are still in the water.

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

Ability is poor men's wealth

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

True youth is a quality which is acquired only with age.

The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.

The present is never a happy state to any being

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.