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.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

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

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

It iswith our brothers and sisters that we learn to love, share, negotiate, startand end fights, hurt others, and save face. The basis of healthy (orunhealthy) connections in adulthood is cast during childhood.