As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

Mensucceed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for theirvictories.

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

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,

Every man is wanted; and no man is wanted much.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

In aconflict, being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view toa viewing point a higher, moreexpansive place, from which you can see both sides.