Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

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,

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave

Usenon-verbal communication to SOFTEN the hard-line position of others: S =Smile, O = Open, Posture, F = Forward Lean, T = Touch, E = Eye Contact, N =Nod.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

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

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shakeit, the more sour it grows.

Personal appearance is looking the best you can for the money.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.