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 strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.

Ho puri dil ki har khwaish teri, Ho khushiyon bhara jahaan tera, Agar tu maange aasmaan ka ek taara, To khuda de-de tumko aasmaan saara.

Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

Prayer changes things by changing people.

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

Commitmentin the face of conflict produces character.