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,

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.

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

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Expreince never helps us avoid doing something foolish; it merely prevents us from enjoying it.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude-roots that can be pulled up.

None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

There isnothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than anagreement.

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