The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

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 youcould kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

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

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Manyspeak much who cannot speak well.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

Weagree completely on everything, including the fact we don't see eye to eye.