If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

It is less dangerous to treat most men badly than to treat them too well.

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,

Thepessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunityin every difficulty.

Inspiration is apt to come only while one is working, waited for, it usually keeps waiting.

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Liberation is not deliverance.

A teacher as a person is more important than a teacher as a technician. What he is has more effect than anything he does.

All thingsat first appear difficult.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speakthe truth, and they never believe me.