Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

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

Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

A peace which depends upon fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that beliefbecomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

Thetrouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought ofyet.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

Sweet is pleasure after pain