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

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude-roots that can be pulled up.

Melancholy is the joy of being said.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

Better hazard than always be in fear.

Failingto plan is planning to fail.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.