Talkingmuch about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't leads anywhere.

Donot wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.

A goodpreparation takes longer than the delivery.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

Don'twrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come greatharmony.

My greenthumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to seethings from the plant's point of view.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol