Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.

To copy is to put an end to creativeness. Unless there is originality, you can do nothing.

Happiness is the wondrous commodity, the more your give; the more you have.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

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

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

A manneed never revenge himself; the body of his enemy will be brought to his owndoor.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.