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,

Win/winis an attitude, not an outcome.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

Let not thy will roar, when the power can but whisper.

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

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

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

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.