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

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

We'reeyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Badplanning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Younever really understand a person until you consider things from his point ofview.

Neverdoubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change theworld. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

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

If Ihad six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.