Pleasant words are the food of love.

The Truly free man is one who know how to decline an invitation without giving an excuse.

To be spiritual is not to reject reason but to go beyond it.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

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

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

Themost important trip you may take in life is meeting people half way.

Ittakes time to save time.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.