Silenceis foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

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,

Beholdthe turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

Makesure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, andyou can't settle anything until morning anyway.

Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

Prayrer changes things by changing people.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shake it,the more sour it grows.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshownmarble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.