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

There is sweet joy that comes to us that comes to us after sorrow.

Neversay more than is necessary.

Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

Nevermistake silence for agreement.

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

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

The weaknesses of many make leader possible.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

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

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.