If you ain'tnever pick up the sword, you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

Education is the ability to listen to almost everything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.

Everything has it's beauty, but not every one sees it.

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

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

The repetition in nature may not be a mere recurrence. It may e a theatrical "encore"

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.