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,

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, Beautiful old people are works of art.

Tell meand I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'llunderstand.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always, the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

You can't unscramble an egg.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

A bad workman never gets a good tool.

Youdon't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there. Anonymous Agood deal is a state of mind.

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

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.