Let uswork without disputing. It is the only way to render life tolerable.

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 weaknesses of many make leader possible.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

It is easier to be brave from a safe distance.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

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

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