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

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell peopleyou are, you aren't.

The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.

Whoeverhas the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you tryto dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolveconflict, not how to start it.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Timinghas a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

No pillow is as soft as clear conscience.

Communicationis not only the essence of being human, but also a vital property of life.