It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

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

Thedeepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

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

Hearme, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Drowning problems in an ocean of information is not the same as solving them.

Don'tjudge a book by its cover.