You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Kindness it is that bring forth kindness.

Buying ischeaper than asking.

Ittakes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on thejob.

Don'tput all your eggs in one basket.

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

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.

God has created the world in play.

A man is but a product of his thoughts; what he thinks, that he becomes

Old fools are more foolish than you ones.

The work of an unknown good man is like a vein of water flow hidden underground, secretly making the ground greener.