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,

Prejudice is a disease characterised by hardening of categories.

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

Angels fly, because they take themselves lightly.

We arejudged by what we finish, not what we start.

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

Never answer a letter while you are angry.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.