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

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

Golf is an expensive way of playing marbles.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

Inspiration is apt to come only while one is working, waited for, it usually keeps waiting.

To effectivelycommunicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceivethe world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication withothers.

Thepeople to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagreewith you and are too cowardly to let you know.