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

There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

The more you seat in peace, the less you bleed in war

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of cancer cell.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.

It's notthe size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Sciencecannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame thedebates about those conflicts.

A teacher as a person is more important than a teacher as a technician. What he is has more effect than anything he does.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion