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,

Success is often the result of taking a mis-step in the right direction.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Angels fly, because they take themselves lightly.

Don'tput all your eggs in one basket.

Many a gem of wisdom have gone unsaid, because someone lacked ability to express it.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Thego-between wears out a thousand sandals.

Beware,as long as you live, of judging people of appearances.