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

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

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.

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.

Pain is the outcome of sin.

If twopeople on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If theydisagree all the time, then both are useless.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

A hero is no braver than anyone else; he is only brave minutes longer

Everyoneis kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.