No man is the whole himself; his friends are the rest of him.

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

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Everytime we read, a seed is sown for the future.

Not work, but the thought that he must work is what makes the lazy man tired.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

I liketo listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.