Use softwords and hard arguments.

Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather than competitive goals.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character

Forbidden fruit can get us into a real jam.

The wicked are not always clever, nor are dictators always right.

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

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

Between grief and nothing I will take Grief.

Nogarden is without its weeds.