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,

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

We do not err because the truth is difficult to see. We err because this is more comfortable

The merit belongs to begineer; should his successor do even more better.

He who is overcautious will accomplish little.

You grow up the day you have first real laugh - at yourself

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

My fathersaid: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let theother fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for alwaysmaking all the money, you won't have many deals.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Step after step the ladder is ascended

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.