Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

Don'tuse a lot where a little will do.

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

Nevercut what you can untie.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Pleasant words are the food of love.

Stability is not immobility

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Takeadvantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think aboutwhat else it might be.

Analysis kills spontaneity.The grain once ground to floor,springs and germinates no more.