Communicationis a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. Ifyou're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of everypart of your life.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

No strength within, no respect without.

A teleision set is like a toaster. You press a button and the same thing pops up almost every time.

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,

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Measurement of life should be rather proportioned to the intensity of experience than it's actual length.

There is much more learning than knowing in the world.

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.