Tell meand I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'llunderstand.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

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

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.

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,

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.