A language is like living skin itself.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

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 error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such,the path of error is the path of truth.

I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure yourealize that what you heard isn't what I meant.

Do not despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

Thesearch for someone to blame is always successful.

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.

God made time, but man made haste.