Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holesare deep.

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 measure of a man is what he does with power.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

Thereare two sides to every question.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Talkingcomes by nature, silence by wisdom.

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

Whenangry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry a hundred.

The good neighbour looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human, and therefore, brothers.