A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience

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,

Be slow of tounge and quick of eye.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the goodintentions of those who create it.

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

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.

Labour with what zeal we will. Something still remains undone.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?