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,

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

Kindwords do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Thewill to win is worthless if you do not have the will to prepare.
Beforeyou build a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

Be yourself and speak your mind today, though it contradicts all you have said before.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Be notdisturbed at being misunderstood; be disturbed at not understanding.