The wise man reads both books and life itself.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave

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

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

You made your bed, now lie in it.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

Drowning problems in an ocean of information is not the same as solving them.

A room without books is a body without soul

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell peopleyou are, you aren't.