Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

One hallmark of freedom is the sound of laughter.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Conflictis neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

Peopleshould talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speechaltogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to sayvisually.

If you ain't never pick up the sword,you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

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

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

The good neighbour looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human, and therefore, brothers.