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

They know enough who know how to learn.

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.

It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticatedcommunication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

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

Failingto plan is planning to fail.

The hearthas arguments with which the logic of mind is not acquainted.

Beware,as long as you live, of judging people of appearances.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Anounce of mediation is worth a pound of arbitration and a ton of litigation!

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.