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

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

Thecorrect strategy for Americans negotiating with Japanese or other foreignclients is a Japanese strategy:ask questions. When you think you understand, ask more questions. Carefullyfeel for pressure points.If an impasse is reached, don't pressure. Sugges

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Thedifference between the right word and the almost right word is the differencebetween lightning and a lightning bug.

Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.

What is required is sight and insight, then you might add one more excite.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.