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.

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,

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 greatharmony.

I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.

Genius is a long impatience.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give itaway.

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Artists can color the sky red because they know its blue.those of us who are not artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we are stupid.