All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

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 cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

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,

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

The most successful man in the life is the man who has the best information.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

To startblindly with a statement is a sign of arrogance and narrow-mindedness, andwill lead to conflict. To start blindly with a question is a sign ofuncertainty and honesty, and will lead to wisdom.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.