Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

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

A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait untilthe deadline looms large.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Whoeverhas the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you tryto dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolveconflict, not how to start it.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

He whoangers you, conquers you.