The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

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,

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

Manmust evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge,aggression, and retaliation.

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

It isthrough cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes willbe derived.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

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.

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't care. Momentum is wht it wants to gather.

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

Few things are harder to pus up with than the annoyance of a good example.