Ability is poor men's wealth

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Superioty and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

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,

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

Beholdthe turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

Whenevertwo people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he seeshimself, each man as the other sees him, and each man as he really is.

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free