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,

The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

Whenanger comes, wisdom goes.

Nobody'sa natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hardto stay on top.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

An artist is only a very small part of the universe and should receive no more attention than any other thing on earth which provides us with beauty, happiness and plenty

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Speak whenyou are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

If Ihad six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.