To exaggrerate is to weaken.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs that freedom never endangered.

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

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

War does not determine who is right - only who is left

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

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony