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,

Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of cancer cell.

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

Well done is better than well said.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Between grief and nothing I will take Grief.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

Tobelieve in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.