It is atrick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed,or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

Ifyou wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

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,

Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

Between friends there is no need of Justice.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

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.

Thereverse side also has a reverse side.