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,

I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

It's whenyou're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Be notdisturbed at being misunderstood; be disturbed at not understanding.

The talker will lead the dog to the meat market.

Nevercut what you can untie.

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

A bad workman never gets a good tool.

Nosnowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.