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

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

It's whenyou're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

The Natural flights of Human mind are not from Pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

True youth is a quality which is acquired only with age.