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,

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

He whohurries cannot walk with dignity.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur