Past time is only eviil at a distance.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends forwhich we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We haveguided missiles and misguided men.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

Themost intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security andcalm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts andtheir conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.

The great essentials of happiness are: something to do,something to love and something to hope for.

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