The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

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

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

There ward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

No man everdid a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater tohimself .

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

The more you seat in peace, the less you bleed in war

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

you can not strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.