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,

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

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

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

It'swhen you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

A half truth is a whole lie.

When people prophesy, they generally makes the mistake of transforming the past to future.

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.

True, Heavenprohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

Liberation is not deliverance.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.