Friendships begin with liking or gratitude-roots that can be pulled up.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

The basic building block of good communications is the feeling that every humanbeing is unique and of value.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

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,

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

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.