The more you seat in peace, the less you bleed in war

Onemust talk little and listen much.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

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

Mandoes not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eatthem.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

Patience is the art of hoping.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

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

A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.