Inspiration is apt to come only while one is working, waited for, it usually keeps waiting.

Takecare, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you willforever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make adifference, if you choose to do so.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech

Who can say more than rich praise, that you alone are you?

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

Manyspeak much who cannot speak well.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—andif I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that asign of duress.

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

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.