People say law but they mean wealth.

Tranquility will roof a house, but discord can wear away the foundation of a city.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

Prayer changes things by changing people.

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,

Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.