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,

The good rain like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

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.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

Theultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Wenever have the time to do it right but always have time to do it over.

Life is no brief candle- it's a splendid torch!

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

Forbidden fruit can get us into a real jam.