Our power is in our ability to decide.

Thereis no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate whata thing is worth to 'you.'

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

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.

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

I’mwilling for any solution religious, political. I’m not going to keepoffering to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

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

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

In art, as in love, instinct is enogh.

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.