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

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

Don'tput all your eggs in one basket.

The ability to laugh together is the essence of love.

EDUCATION BEGINS WITH LIFE.

Talentalone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at theright time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are youready?'

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.