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

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

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

An individual without information can't takeresponsibility. An individual with information can't help but takeresponsibility.

Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

A room without books is a body without soul

Gossip is the art of saying nothing, in a manner that leaves nothing unsaid