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

Conflictisn't negative, it just is.

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

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

Speakwhen you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

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

Before following a leader, it's wise to see if he's headed in the right direction.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

The more you seat in peace, the less you bleed in war

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.