Thereare no secrets. There is no mystery. There is only common sense.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

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,

Education is the ability to listen to almost everything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

Reformers are those who educate people to appreciate the things they need.

Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.