Influence: 'If you study the Parable of the Sower, its surface suggests that people are much like a field that needs to be sowed with the seeds of good examples; carefully cultivated, weeded and tended to in order to produce a worthy crop. Ask yourselves what seeds do you sow in others? Do you cultivate and weed that the sprouts of goodness have a chance to grow. Don't make the mistake of sowing seeds of doubt and mistrust. Again, give people a chance and you will become a living part of their success.'

Comedy: Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.

People: 'There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People …

Manners: 'Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.'

But there are very few people who can hold me in a way, to look at them and talk to me. And make me cry, and to talk to me about my life. And also to say, get …

One cannot make oneself, but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else. It is well. ~ Ch 10

There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very diff…