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,

Goodcommunication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleepafter.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.

Those who trust us educate us.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Expreince never helps us avoid doing something foolish; it merely prevents us from enjoying it.

To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.

The comforter's head never aches.

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.