Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

Byfailing to prepare you are preparing to fail.

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.

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

Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Be slow of tounge and quick of eye.

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

Don'tuse a lot where a little will do.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character