If you are standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

Every man has the right to feel that "Because of me was the world created".

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

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,

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

Timinghas a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

Without dialogue there is no communication, without communication there is no true education.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.