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,

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.

Sweet is pleasure after pain

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

Unlessa man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.

Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to looknot only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.

When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.