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

Myfather said: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Letthe other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation foralways making all the money, you won't have many deals.

Two man looks out through the same bars: the one sees the mud, the one the stars.

If speakingis silver, then listening is gold.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

If you follow me, I may lead you straight to hell, but ifyou trust me, I will lead you back out again.

No man everdid a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater tohimself .

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

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