Pleasant words are the food of love.

Takeadvantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think aboutwhat else it might be.

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge

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,

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.