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,

Bestill when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

The basic building block of good communications is the feeling that every humanbeing is unique and of value.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

Whetherit's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

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