A goodlistener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

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

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

In thebusiness world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes,governed by self interest.

Two man looks out through the same bars: the one sees the mud, the one the stars.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

Nosnowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

There is much more learning than knowing in the world.

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

Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—andif I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that asign of duress.