Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

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,

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but bystriking true.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

The man who says he's too old to learn new tricks probably always was.

Don'twrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Inspiration is apt to come only while one is working, waited for, it usually keeps waiting.