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,

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to knowhim better.

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.

Sweet is pleasure after pain

A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.

People who can't admit they are part of the problem, willnever be part of its solution.

Be yourself and speak your mind today, though it contradicts all you have said before.

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not so sure about being quiet.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

A goodmanager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wastingthe energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight youopenly when they think that you are wrong that's healthy.