Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.

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

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

Talk back to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write downcritical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts areuntrue and practice talking and writing back to them.

A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.

Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

To start blindly with a statement is a sign of arrogance and narrow-mindedness,and will lead to conflict. To start blindly with a question is a sign ofuncertainty and honesty, and will lead to wisdom.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

Glory is a poison that can only be taken in small doses.

To exaggrerate is to weaken.

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.