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,

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

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

We gain freedom when we have paid full price for our right to live.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but bystriking true.

A good listeneris not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

Pain is the outcome of sin.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

The greatest prayer is patience.