Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

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.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

If youcould kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end upsomewhere else.

Don't wrestlea pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

The planers do not make or mar our destiny. we are the makers of our destiny.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holesare deep.

Man's life would be wretched and confined if it were to missthe candid intimacy developed by mutual trust and esteem.

The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.