Don'tbargain for fish which are still in the water.

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

Use softwords and hard arguments.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

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.

A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.

Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

No man everdid a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater tohimself .

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

Contradictionshould awaken Attention, not Passion.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.