Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

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

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Neversay more than is necessary.

Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.

The first duty of love is to listen.

Talkingmuch about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.