Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Happiness is the wondrous commodity, the more your give; the more you have.

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

Nogarden is without its weeds.

Thepeople to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagreewith you and are too cowardly to let you know.

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

By tryingoften, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

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

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