Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

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

To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

No one lies as much as the indignant do.

Whoever does not know the truth is ignorant, but the one who knows the truth but denies is a criminal

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

Laughter is shortest distance between two people.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

Knowledge leads to unity, ignorance to diversity.