Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

No manever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greaterto himself .

Bekind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

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,

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.

Nevercut what you can untie.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.