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,

Suspicion begets suspicion.

The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

Worry is a circle of inefficient thoughts whirling about a point of fear.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

When you ask from a stranger that which is of interest only to yourself, always enclose a stamp

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Neveranswer a letter while you are angry.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.