Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

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,

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Anounce of mediation is worth a pound of arbitration and a ton of litigation!

It's notthe size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.