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 greatest prayer is patience.

Thedeepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

If youare planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in thenegotiations. If you're going to skin a cat, don't keep it as a house cat.

Sometimeswe have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have togrow to meet it.

To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends forwhich we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We haveguided missiles and misguided men.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

The pessimistsees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in everydifficulty.