Thehardest step is over the threshold.

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

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

Silenceis argument carried out by other means.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

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

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

In lifeprepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those who are immovable; those who are movable; and those who move.