Opportunity may be hard to recognize if you are only looking for a lucky break.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

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,

Loving without dreaming is like going to Venice without riding in a gondola

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

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

Man alone contains within himself as many species as exist on earth.

Peacecan not be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Ourlonging for understandingis Eternal.

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannothurt you.

Happiness is the wondrous commodity, the more your give; the more you have.

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

Goodcommunication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleepafter.