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

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

A miserand a liar bargain quickly.

Bestill when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.

We donot have to agree; we do need to understand.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

Whenpeople say women can’t be trusted because they cycle every month, myresponse is that men cycle every day, so they should only be allowed tonegotiate peace treaties in the evening.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

The Natural flights of Human mind are not from Pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges