Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

Thebasic building block of good communications is the feeling that every humanbeing is unique and of value.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning tosee things from the plant's point of view.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure yourealize that what you heard isn't what I meant.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.