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

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

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.

Our distrust is very expensive.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Enthusiasm is faith set on fire.

My greenthumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to seethings from the plant's point of view.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

Tranquility will roof a house, but discord can wear away the foundation of a city.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.