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,

None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

Inspiration is apt to come only while one is working, waited for, it usually keeps waiting.

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

People who do not believe in miracles are not realist.

Youcannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Whendealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic,but creatures of emotion.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

When people prophesy, they generally makes the mistake of transforming the past to future.

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.