You may give gifts without caring, but you can't care without giving

It's whenyou're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Modesty is the clothing of talent.

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

A man'sconversation is the mirror of his thoughts.

When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledgeincreases strength.

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.

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

Thereis no squabbling so violent as that between peoplewho accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same ideatomorrow.

The hardeststep is over the threshold.