The pessimistsees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in everydifficulty.

Analysis kills spontaneity.The grain once ground to floor,springs and germinates no more.

.Oneshould count each day a separate life.

Malicedrinketh its own poison.

Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.

Nosnowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Thereverse side also has a reverse side.

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

Sometimesone pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Whenanger comes, wisdom goes.