Humoris the affectionate communication of insight.

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,

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

What we seek we shall find, what we flee from flee from us.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

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.

Snap judgment has a way of becoming unfastened.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

It'snot the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes thedifference.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.