It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning tosee things from the plant's point of view.

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not hethat you wrong but yourself.

A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

Cooperativeconflict builds people up, strengthens their relationships, and gets thingsdone.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

The present is never a happy state to any being

The good neighbour looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human, and therefore, brothers.

Neveranswer a letter while you are angry.