Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

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,

Living is the art of getting used to what we did'nt expect.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the brick that others throw at him.

Beholdthe turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

Whoever is winning the race will always seem to be invincible.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

You made your bed, now lie in it.