It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

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

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Ourlives are not dependent on whether or not we have conflict. It is what we dowith conflict that makes the difference.

It seemedrather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, weoften suffer from a shortage of listeners.

Given afair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high,not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whateverterms are offered us? No.

Afanatic is a person who can’t change his mind and won’t change.

The good neighbour looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human, and therefore, brothers.