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,

Thesingle most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get upand walk away from the table without a deal.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

Extremiststhink communication means agreeing with them.

He whohurries cannot walk with dignity.

Youcan't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come toyou. You have to go to them sometimes.

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shake it,the more sour it grows.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.