Status symbols are medals you buy yourself

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.

Sayingnothing... sometimes says the most.

Do notfind fault, find a remedy.

Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.

Silencemay be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than tolisten to him?

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

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

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

It iswith our brothers and sisters that we learn to love, share, negotiate, startand end fights, hurt others, and save face. The basis of healthy (orunhealthy) connections in adulthood is cast during childhood.