Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

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,

Happiness is the wondrous commodity, the more your give; the more you have.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Oursubconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes, and cannot tell thedifference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What wecontinually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Anempty sack cannot stand up.

The hearthas arguments with which the logic of mind is not acquainted.

To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.

There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

All marriedcouples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of makinglove. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Good battleis healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equalpartnership.