Usesoft words and hard arguments.

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,

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Lookingfor fish? Don't climb a tree.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

The hand of liberty is stronger than arms of power.

People who can't admit they are part of the problem, willnever be part of its solution.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government