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

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 Shortest distance between two jokes makess a perfect speech.

No one lies as much as the indignant do.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Necessitynever made a good bargain.

Usesoft words and hard arguments.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

Sciencecannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame thedebates about those conflicts.