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,

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

Tofight fear, act. To increase fear wait, put off, postpone.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Expreince never helps us avoid doing something foolish; it merely prevents us from enjoying it.

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Patience is the art of hoping.

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

What is required is sight and insight, then you might add one more excite.