No battle is more sorely lost that the one not fought

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,

A school should be the most beautiful place in every town- so beautiful tht the punishment for undutiful children should be that they be debarred from going to school the following day.

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

The Shortest distance between two jokes makess a perfect speech.

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyoneelse.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

Buyingis cheaper than asking.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.