Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

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

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.

I think I could sum up my position on this with therecitation of a brief Russian proverb ‘Doveryai no Proveryai.’ Itmeans trust but verify.

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.

Themost important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how toget along with people.

One hallmark of freedom is the sound of laughter.

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.