Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

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

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

Do not tell me the problem is a difficult one. If it were not difficult, it would not be a problem

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—andif I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that asign of duress.

Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.