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 is not only what you have but what the enemy thinksyou have.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

As long as there is life there is danger.

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

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

It'sthe repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that beliefbecomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

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

Suffer fools gladly, they might be right.