We gain freedom when we have paid full price for our right to live.

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

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

Man alone contains within himself as many species as exist on earth.

Only few men think, but all have opinions.

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

All thingsat first appear difficult.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.