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,

No man is the whole himself; his friends are the rest of him.

Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

A faithful friend is medicine of Life.

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

A newbroom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

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

We arejudged by what we finish, not what we start.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.