Happiness is a choice that requires affort at times.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outbrust of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.

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

Happiness is the wondrous commodity, the more your give; the more you have.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.