Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

.Oneshould count each day a separate life.

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Ignorance is a bold, and knowledge reserved

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

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

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.