Suffer fools gladly, they might be right.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

The hardest thing to disguise is you feelings when you put a lot of relatives on the train for home.

A language is like living skin itself.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

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

Whenmen and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons arealways different.

Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.

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