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

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

Never answer a letter while you are angry.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

Each time we read, a seed is sown for the future.

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 talker will lead the dog to the meat market.

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shake it,the more sour it grows.