Do notfind fault, find a remedy.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

My greenthumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to seethings from the plant's point of view.