True, Heavenprohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

If twopeople on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If theydisagree all the time, then both are useless.

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

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.

No doctor is a good doctor who has never been ill himself.

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

It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticatedcommunication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come greatharmony.

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 onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.