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,

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

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

A caricature is always ture only for an instant.

If you ain't never pick up the sword,you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

Bytrying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

When trumpt sound today where wood you be! if you die today your JESUS has come! how could you give account of your life if JESUS meet you in your sinful life! repent now tomorrow might too late for you!

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Discord gives a relish to concord.