A merefriend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.

A foolshows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

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,

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

Opportunists take now for an answer.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.

Itisn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.