The greatest prayer is patience.

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.

Hatred does not not cease by hatred; but only by rule; this is the eternal rule.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

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

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

It'snot the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes thedifference.

If youare standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

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,