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

The first duty of love is to listen.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

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,

Youcan't shake hands with a clenched fist.

The World is but, a school of inquiry.

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.

I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure yourealize that what you heard isn't what I meant.