If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that beliefbecomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

Thosewho are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

Necessitynever made a good bargain.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

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

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

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Modesty is the clothing of talent.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.