If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

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,

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

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

A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.

Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

No matter how good the idea of the other fellow may be, there is always a better one !