A good listeneris not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

Sweet is pleasure after pain

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

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,

There is a sweet joy that comes to us after sorrow.

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

The property of power is to protect.

The problem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

The ultimate measured a man is not where he stands in marents of comfort, but whre he stands at times of challenge & contraversy.