Before youbuild a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Democracy will break under the strain of apronstrings. It can exist only on trust.

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

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

Life, Like a child, laughs shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Wherethe tongue slips, it speaks the truth.

Ourlives are not dependent on whether or not we have conflict. It is what we dowith conflict that makes the difference.

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.