Don'tconsider your reputation and you may do anything you like.

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

Whenangry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry a hundred.

Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day

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.

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

Who can say more than rich praise, that you alone are you?

People who do not believe in miracles are not realist.

Astupid act entails doing the work twice over.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.