Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

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,

Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

The ability to laugh together is the essence of love.

Be slow of tounge and quick of eye.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

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

Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

Byfailing to prepare you are preparing to fail.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous