To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

Before youbuild a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

A Leader is a dealer in hope.

Usesoft words and hard arguments.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

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 summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.