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,

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

Use softwords and hard arguments.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Eyes are more accurate witness than ears

Commitmentin the face of conflict produces character.

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

There are two kind of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. try to be in the first group; there is a less competition there.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.