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,

Thehardest step is over the threshold.

Do not despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

You canobserve a lot by just watching.

Snap judgment has a way of becoming unfastened.

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

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.

Bring ideas in and treat them royally,for one of them may be the king.

Myfather said: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Letthe other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation foralways making all the money, you won't have many deals.

Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.

Ifanyone is not willing to accept your point of view, try to see his point of view.