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

Anempty sack cannot stand up.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use them.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends forwhich we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We haveguided missiles and misguided men.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

I willprepare and some day my chance will come.

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.