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

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

The mostintense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calmthat is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and theirconflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

My fathersaid: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let theother fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for alwaysmaking all the money, you won't have many deals.

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

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't leads anywhere.

Between grief and nothing I will take Grief.