Between grief and nothing I will take Grief.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

Bekind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

Patience is the art of hoping.

It is atrick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed,or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge

Be yourself and speak your mind today, though it contradicts all you have said before.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

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,