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,

No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech

.Oneshould count each day a separate life.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

Suspicion begets suspicion.

Anounce of mediation is worth a pound of arbitration and a ton of litigation!

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

Discord gives a relish to concord.

Wherethe tongue slips, it speaks the truth.

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.