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,

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candour

Suffer fools gladly, they might be right.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.

I willprepare and some day my chance will come.

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Not work, but the thought that he must work is what makes the lazy man tired.

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.