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,

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

By tryingoften, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Every man has the right to feel that "Because of me was the world created".

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

Manmust evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge,aggression, and retaliation.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

A Habit is a shirt made of iron.