Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

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

Don'twrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.