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

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

When you ask from a stranger that which is of interest only to yourself, always enclose a stamp

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Byblending the breath of the sun and the shade, true harmony comes into theworld.