A mistake in judgement isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgement is.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

Untrained intelligence is as much of use as a bottle without an opener.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

Mistakes are to Life what shadows are to Light.

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,

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.