It'snot the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes thedifference.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

What we seek we shall find, what we flee from flee from us.

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

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

Beware,as long as you live, of judging people of appearances.

Patience is the art of hoping.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.