If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

Whendealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic,but creatures of emotion.

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,

It is easier to be brave from a safe distance.

Firstkeep the peace within yourself, then you can alsobring peace to others.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

Whoever is winning the race will always seem to be invincible.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

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

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.