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,

Don't throwout the baby with the bath water.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character

Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

The rulers must be watched, not the ruled.

Compromise.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.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

Money is what things run into and people run out of

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughtd other man by reason of respect or natural love.

Are youreally listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?