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.

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

Prepareby knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number ofvariables you can work with during the negotiation... you need to have a walkaway... a combination of price, terms, and deliverables that represents theleast you will accept. Witho

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

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. -Will Rogers

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.