Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shakeit, the more sour it grows.

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

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

Buyingis cheaper than asking.

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

The most successful man in the life is the man who has the best information.

Peopleshould talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speechaltogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to sayvisually.

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to knowhim better.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

A quiettongue shows a wise head.