Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare 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

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not hethat you wrong but yourself.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

We gain freedom when we have paid full price for our right to live.

Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Theultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands.

It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

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

Sometimeswe have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have togrow to meet it.

Silenceis foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.