Don'tput all your eggs in one basket.

In lifeprepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.

To exaggrerate is to weaken.

Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

We donot have to agree; we do need to understand.

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,

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

Unless aman has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.