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,

In thebusiness world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes,governed by self interest.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

Ourlives are not dependent on whether or not we have conflict. It is what we dowith conflict that makes the difference.

Talkback to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write downcritical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts areuntrue and practice talking and writing back to them.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Necessity truns lion into fox.

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

Onlyfree men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedomand mine cannot be separated.