Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

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

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

Donot wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.

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

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

Itisn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.

The World is but, a school of inquiry.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.