Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

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,

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

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

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

Sometimeswe have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have togrow to meet it.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Allthings at first appear difficult.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.