Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

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 flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

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

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

A language is like living skin itself.

He whocannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.