Friendships begin with liking or gratitude-roots that can be pulled up.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

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,

Repentance is the attempt of the inner man to return home after wonderful night out

Whenangry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry a hundred.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

If Ihad six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such,the path of error is the path of truth.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.