Thetime to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

Malice drinketh its own poison.

If wecannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

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

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.

A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.