It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

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

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end upsomewhere else.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather thancompetitive goals.

The loftierthe building the deeper the foundation must be.

Any man's death diminishes me, because i am involved in mankind; and, therefore, never tend to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.