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,

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large.

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

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

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

Thedirect use of force is such a poor solution to any problem,it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.