If Ihad six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Don'tuse a lot where a little will do.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Hatred does not not cease by hatred; but only by rule; this is the eternal rule.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

Don't throwout the baby with the bath water.

Marriagemeans expectations and expectations mean conflict.

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

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

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