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 is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

Thosewho are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Nevermistake silence for agreement.

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

A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.

If you salute your duty,you need not salute anybody. But if u pollute ur duty, u hav 2 salute every body...." -ABDUL KALAM..

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.