When people prophesy, they generally makes the mistake of transforming the past to future.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

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

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

Conscience is the frame of character, love is the covering for it.

Cooperativeconflict builds people up, strengthens their relationships, and gets thingsdone.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.