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

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

We'reeyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Democracy will break under the strain of apronstrings. It can exist only on trust.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.

If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.