Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, Beautiful old people are works of art.

Mirrors should be able to think before reflecting the images.

Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use 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

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

Angels fly, because they take themselves lightly.

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.

The mostintense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calmthat is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and theirconflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Laughter is shortest distance between two people.

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

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.