You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.

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,

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Freedom demands respect for the freedom of others.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

Silenceis foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.