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

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

Silenceis the ultimate weapon of power.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was tht they escaped teething.

If Ihad six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.

Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use them.