When the pencil maker was packing the pencils in their respective boxes, he told the pencils five important lessons :

(1)  "Everything you do will always leave a

       mark."

(2)  "You can always correct the mistakes you

       made."

(3)  "What is important is what is inside you."

(4)  "In life you will undergo painful sharpening

      which will make you a better pencil."

(5)  "And the most important... 

      To be the best pencil you can be, you must

      allow yourself to be held and guided by the

      hand thatholds you."