Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

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

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

Thefibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings ofan instrument.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.