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

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

Truthsprings from argument amongst friends.

Marriagemeans expectations and expectations mean conflict.

He whois unable to dance says the yard is stony.

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

When work is pleasure, life is joy.

A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Melancholy is the joy of being said.