When our hearts are empty, we collect things.

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

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

Do not despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

A room without books is a body without soul

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.

Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.

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

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

In all superstitions wise men follow fools.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.