Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

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,

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

Man is born free, and everywhere is is in chains

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after while he gets to know something.

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

It'swhen you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

The difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.