Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

It's notthe size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

A mistake in judgement isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgement is.

Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

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.

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

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

Originality is the art of Concealing your Source.