Artists can color the sky red because they know its blue.those of us who are not artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we are stupid.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

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

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

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 greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

Thereverse side also has a reverse side.

Thecourts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputesbegins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternativemethods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

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