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,

Every man is wanted; and no man is wanted much.

A teleision set is like a toaster. You press a button and the same thing pops up almost every time.

A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

Compromise.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.

Whenangry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry a hundred.

The hand of liberality is stronger than the arm of power.

It is throughcooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will bederived.

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

Decisionis the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made, nothinghappens.... Decision is the courageous facing of issues, knowing that if theyare not faced, problems will remain forever unanswered.

Don't be took quick to belive anything you read.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.