People who fight with fire usually end up with ashes.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

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,

When your work speaks for itself,don't interrupt.

In aconflict, being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view toa viewing point a higher, moreexpansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those who are immovable; those who are movable; and those who move.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.