If Ihad six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.

If speakingis silver, then listening is gold.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather than competitive goals.

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.

Makesure you leave some fat for the other side.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

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