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

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,

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

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.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

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.

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

A man'sconversation is the mirror of his thoughts.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous